IAATO Field Directory · Bays, Bases, Channels & Wildlife Rookeries
Step ashore at 29 legendary polar harbours, historic research bases, navigable iceberg channels, and penguin rookeries across Antarctica and the Sub-Antarctic islands.
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Gerlache Strait
One of only two primary harbours used for continental mainland landings on the western Antarctic Peninsula, encircled by sheer calving glacier cliffs and feeding humpbacks.
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Gerlache Strait
Iconic continental Antarctic landing deep inside Andvord Bay where gentoo penguin highways climb snowy ridges beside active thunderous tidewater glaciers.
Anvers Island
Dramatic 26-kilometre glacial waterway winding between Anvers Island's Mount Français massif and the serrated peaks of Wiencke Island.
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Anvers Island
Restored 1944 British wartime research hut on Goudier Island hosting the world's southernmost post office amid nesting gentoo penguins and whale skeletons.
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Lemaire Channel
Low rounded granite island at the southern mouth of Lemaire Channel where Jean-Baptiste Charcot overwintered in 1909 and Adélie and gentoo penguins nest side-by-side.
Gerlache Strait
Photogenic, iceberg-studded strait separating jagged Rongé Island from the Danco Coast and linking Cuverville and Danco Islands.
Gerlache Strait
Steep dome-shaped island guarding the northern entrance to Errera Channel, home to more than 6,500 breeding pairs of gentoo penguins and grounded icebergs.
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South Georgia
Sheltered inside King Edward Cove beneath Mount Duse, uniting Sir Ernest Shackleton's cemetery toast with the South Georgia Museum, Norwegian church, and elephant seals.
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South Orkney Islands
Historic meteorological outpost on a narrow South Orkney isthmus between Scotia and Weddell waters, continuously staffed since 1904 amid chinstrap and Adélie rookeries.
Falkland Islands
Home to "The Neck", a sweeping white-sand tombolo where king, gentoo, Magellanic, and rockhopper penguins parade beneath black-browed albatross colonies.
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Falkland Islands
Brightly painted harbour town on East Falkland famed for its blue-whalebone cathedral arch, maritime museum, Magellanic penguins at Gypsy Cove, and Volunteer Point excursions.
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Antarctic Sound
Towering rust-brown volcanic tuya cliff facing Iceberg Alley on the Antarctic mainland, hosting vast Adélie and gentoo penguin rookeries beneath colossal tabular bergs.
Weddell Sea
Circular volcanic cinder cone in the northwestern Weddell Sea carpeted wall-to-wall by 100,000 pairs of Adélie penguins around the 1903 stone hut of the crushed ship Antarctic.
Antarctic Peninsula
Remote, ice-sculpted embayment on the northwestern Trinity Peninsula named in honour of expedition cruising pioneer Lars-Eric Lindblad.
King George Island
Chile's flagship polar base and Teniente R. Marsh Runway on King George Island, where fly-cruise guests step off their 2-hour Punta Arenas flight straight into Zodiacs.
South Shetland Islands
Second-largest island of the South Shetlands, famed for Hannah Point's fossil-rich beaches packed with wallowing elephant seals, gentoos, chinstraps, and giant petrels.
Falkland Islands
Vertiginous 350-metre coastal cliffs at Devil's Nose where southern rockhopper penguins weave directly between mud-pedestal nests of black-browed albatrosses.
Gerlache Strait
Glacier-ringed cove on the northern Danco Coast choked with sculpted icebergs, leopard seals, humpbacks, and chinstrap colonies near Primavera Base.
Gerlache Strait
Deep 17-kilometre Antarctic Peninsula fjord framed by 1,500-metre peaks, enclosing Neko Harbour and one of Antarctica's densest summer humpback whale populations.
Scotia Sea
Volcanic cone rising 2,062 metres from the mid-South Atlantic on springtime Atlantic Odyssey voyages from South Georgia toward St Helena.
Lemaire Channel
Celebrated for shallow shoals that trap hundreds of towering, wind-carved blue icebergs at the southern exit of Lemaire Channel.
Gerlache Strait
Rounded 180-metre island in southern Errera Channel offering one of the Peninsula's best snowshoe climbs above terraced gentoo colonies and glacier walls.
Weddell Sea
Towering mesa-crowned island along the eastern Weddell flank of the Antarctic Peninsula where dinosaur fossils, wind-carved basalt cliffs, and pack ice meet.
Weddell Sea
Ice-free sedimentary plateau next to Snow Hill Island famed for Eocene giant-penguin fossils, Adélie colonies at Penguin Point, and 1903 Swedish Expedition history.
Weddell Sea
Twin-peaked volcanic island nestled against Vega Island in the northwestern Weddell Sea, home to over 10,000 pairs of Adélie penguins and sweeping summit views.
Auckland Islands
Strictly protected UNESCO World Heritage islands south of New Zealand explored by Zodiac beneath endemic Snares crested penguins and millions of nesting shearwaters.
Falkland Islands
Rodent-free West Falkland island celebrated for fearless endemic Cobb's wrens and tussacbirds, gentoo and Magellanic beaches, and legendary farmhouse tea.
Antarctic Sound
Historic fjord at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula facing Antarctic Sound, uniting one of Antarctica's largest Adélie colonies with Nordenskjöld's stone survival hut.
Anvers Island
Tight cluster of ice-capped islands between Anvers and Brabant Islands offering mirror-flat channels for kayaking among grounded bergs, Weddell seals, and humpback whales.
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