BIRDS OF SOUTH GEORGIA Albatross and Cape petrels guide your ship to South Georgia, also known as the Galapagos of the South Seas.
INCREDIBLE SNOWSCAPES The Antarctic Peninsula is at its most pristine from NOVEMBER to MID-DECEMBER. As the region wakes up from winter, pure white snowscapes stretch beyond the horizons.
KING PENGUINS Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, is home to 500,000 King penguins.
BLUE-TINTED ICEBERGS During the mid-summer period of MID-DECEMBER
to MID-FEBRUARY, sun and salt water turn icebergs into blue works of art.
APR–MAY 1916 Shackleton and five crewmen row to South Georgia to find help for the sailors left on Elephant Island.
SOUTH GEORGIA
DEC 5, 1914 Endurance departs Grytviken whaling station on South Georgia.
CALVING GLACIERS. Thunderous glacier- calving, when chunks of glaciers crash into the sea, is common MID-FEBRUARY to LATE MARCH.
HONORING SHACKLETON Heroic polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton,
who died in 1922, is buried in the cemetery at Grytviken on South Georgia Island.
OVERNIGHT CAMPING IN ANTARCTICA
Sleeping outdoors overnight in a bivy sac on the Peninsula is an unforgettable experience.
Temperatures are at their warmest (up to 40°F/ 5°C) MID-NOVEMBER to MID-JANUARY.
Now that you’ve explored the highlights of the Antarctic region, discover the wide range of itineraries we offer.
ENDURANCE FOUND A search team, using undersea drones, located Endurance at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in MARCH 2022.
NOV 21, 1915 Endurance sinks to the bottom of the Weddell Sea after being trapped in ice for over a year.
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