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American cruise line

Lindblad Expeditions (Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic, Nasdaq: LIND) is an expedition travel company headquartered in New York, NY.

The company currently offers expedition cruises to destinations on all seven continents aboard 15 ships with capacities ranging from 28 to 150 guests.

History

Lindblad Travel (1958–1989)

Lars-Eric Lindblad founded Lindblad Travel in Connecticut in 1958.^[1] Lindblad Travel led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966^[2] and was among the first companies to bring tourists to the Galápagos Islands starting in 1967.^[3] Later, after launching the first private, purpose-built expedition ship, the Lindblad Explorer (1969),^[4] it pioneered tourist expeditions to the Arctic, Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, the Seychelles, Easter Island, Indonesia, the Amazon River, and many others.^[5] In 1984 Lindblad Travel led the first to