Antarctic Peninsula
Mountainous and ice covered, the Antarctic Peninsula is like nowhere you have visited before. Here, among captivating glaciers, majestic icebergs and snowy islands is where most visitors to the White Continent will live out their Antarctic dream.
With any luck, as you sail quietly past house-sized, free-floating tabular icebergs and pancake ice, you may be able to hear the sounds of creaking and popping as huge chunks of ice break off and crash into Weddell Sea.
Get your camera at the ready as you take in the magnitude of this vast frozen wilderness that changes colour from glassy white to turquoise and green - a landscape that is often broken up by the tail of a fluking minke, humpback or orca (killer whales), and leopard seals resting on an ice floe, all who come here to feed on abundant Antarctic krill, the small cold-water crustacean that bring bird- and wildlife to these waters.
Coming ashore by Zodiac, you will be at a loss for words when you first catch a glimpse of the seabirds and penguin rookeries - although you may smell these first! There are plenty of landing points on the Peninsula - Port Lockroy research station with its post office, from where you can send postcards, Neko Harbour, the Gerlache Strait or Elephant Point. Our expert team of expedition leaders and naturalists will have you exploring Antarctica in no time.
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