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What We Offer

• Ice breaker Expedition Ship

  Your travel is on board a comfortable ice-strengthened vessel which accommodates a maximum of 88 passengers in 46 comfortable cabins and suites making it a more intimate experience on a smaller ship.

• Expertise

  There is a team of 5 experts on board, the Expedition Leader, Assistant Expedition Leader and 3 other experts including biologists, naturalists and historians.

• Cruise Amenities

  Superb hospitality and support of the crew. Landings are excellent. Expedition staff go out of their way to help, inform and educate.

• Daily Planning

  Your itinerary is expertly planned to take the best advantage of the amazing wildlife and spectacular scenery during each part of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic season. Each evening during the Recap the daily program for the next day will be presented by your Expedition Leader.

• Expeditionary Staff

  Your voyage will be directed by an Expedition Leader in conjunction with staff assistants, zodiac drivers, and a team of lecturers. Staff members are specially selected and trained to provide an eventful cruise.

• Lecturers

  Our team of lecturers will accompany you throughout your voyage. While they will give lectures and lead shore excursions, they will also be on hand to answer your questions and provide ready knowledge throughout the day.

• Lectures and Films

  Both lectures and films are offered in the observation lounge/lecture room with modern multimedia equipment.

• Shore Excursions

  Shore excursions will be outlined during recap and briefings the day before. Before disembarkation information on the length of time on land and the type of landing (“wet” or “dry”) will be announced.

• Wildlife Watch

  During the time we are in areas where there is a possibility of sighting wildlife, the ships’ officers and staff are constantly on the lookout.

• Zodiacs

  The SHIP carries her own fleet of zodiacs and RIB’s. Zodiacs accommodate up to 12 guests and, in the hands of their skilled boatmen, are stable, safe and manoeuvrable.

• Route

  Ushuaia - Drake Passage - Antarctic Peninsula & South Shetland Islands - Drake Passage - Ushuaia. We are spending 4 days right in middle of the continent - spotting incredible wildlife, learning about the polar environment and actually landing on the continent's soil.

• Drake's Passage

  The Drake Passage also marks the Antarctic Convergence, a biological barrier where cold polar water sinks beneath the warmer northern waters.

• Scientific Station Visit

  You will visit at least one of the scientific stations to get an insight into the work taking place in Antarctica.

• Antarctic Peninsula

  The Antarctic Peninsula’s remarkable history will provide you with a type of excitement often only associated with the early explorers. You will have plenty of time to explore its amazing scenery, a pristine wilderness of snow, ice, mountains and waterways, and an incredibly wide variety of wildlife.

• Paradise Bay

  The most aptly named place in the world and we attempt a landing on the continent proper. After negotiating the iceberg-strewn waters of the Antarctic Sound, we hope to visit the bustling Adélie Penguin (over 100,000 pairs breed here) and Blue-eyed Cormorant colonies on Paulet Island. The Nordenskjöld expedition built a stone survival hut here in 1903. Today its ruins have been taken over by nesting penguins.