ANTARTICA
No place on earth compares to this vast white wilderness distilled to an elemental haiku: snow, ice, water, rock. Antarctica is simply stunning. The enormity of its ice shelves and mountain ranges invariably heightens feelings of humanity’s insignificance and nature’s grandeur. Antarctica’s peculiar beauty may haunt you for the rest of your days. Even the trip over, crossing the Southern Ocean is an experience – with no landmass, low-‐pressure systems circle clockwise unimpeded, eventually reaching incredible speeds. The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic are often included in a trip to Antarctica.
Ross Ice Shelf
Covering 520,000 sq km, an area roughly the size of France, the Ross Ice Shelf was discovered on January 28, 1841, by Ross, who called it the Victoria Barrier in honor of Queen Victoria.
Paradise Harbor
With its majestic icebergs and reflections of the surrounding mountains in the water, Paradise Harbor is undeniably beautiful. Even the early-‐20th-‐century whalers operating here recognized its extreme splendor, as its name indicates. This is a favorite place for Zodiac cruising around the ice calved from the (receding) glacier at the head of the bay.
Lemaire Channel
This steep-‐sided channel -‐ just 1600m (5250ft) wide -‐ runs for 11km (7mi) between the mountains of Booth Island and the Peninsula.
Photography
Vivid emerald, violet tints, intense blue and crimson light—the Antarctic Peninsula is anything but a world of white desolation. Join us on a true adventure to a world of immense scale and visual splendour.
