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Home›Green Marine›Bill Gates and Paul Allen cruise Antarctica in super yacht
Green Marine

February 6, 2007 · about 19 years ago

Bill Gates and Paul Allen cruise Antarctica in super yacht

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the world’s richest man is currently on an Antarctica cruise in one of the largest and most luxurious private super-yachts belonging to his associate Paul Allen. The 250 million US dollars “Octopus” with Gates and 17 relatives and friends called in Ushuaia over t

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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the world’s richest man is currently on an Antarctica cruise in one of the largest and most luxurious private super-yachts belonging to his associate Paul Allen.

The 250 million US dollars “Octopus” with Gates and 17 relatives and friends called in Ushuaia over the weekend to wait for Allen who arrived in a private Boeing 757 and was flown on board in one of the two super yacht’s helicopters. For security reasons the “Octopus” had to wait for the helicopters in Ushuaia bay.

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