70 upcoming Antarctic expeditions with Deception Island on the route, from $8,600 per person.
Deception Island is a flooded volcanic caldera you sail straight into, through a gap in the crater wall called Neptune's Bellows. Inside: black-sand beaches that steam at low tide, the rusting remains of a whaling station, and an eerie, amphitheatre calm.
It is one of Antarctica's most surreal landings — and a favourite spot for the polar plunge, warmed (slightly) by geothermal sand.
Jan 9, 2028 – Jan 21, 2028 · 13 days
Ushuaia
Jan 10, 2028 – Jan 17, 2028 · 10 days
Punta Arenas
Jan 12, 2028 – Jan 22, 2028 · 12 days
Ushuaia
Jan 13, 2028 – Jan 23, 2028 · 11 days
Jan 14, 2028 – Jan 24, 2028 · 11 days
Jan 15, 2028 – Jan 23, 2028 · 9 days
Punta Arenas
Jan 20, 2028 – Jan 30, 2028 · 12 days
Ushuaia
Jan 29, 2028 – Feb 10, 2028 · 13 days
Ushuaia
Jan 31, 2028 – Feb 9, 2028 · 9 days
Punta Arenas
Feb 2, 2028 – Feb 12, 2028 · 11 days
Ushuaia
Feb 5, 2028 – Feb 15, 2028 · 11 days
Ushuaia
Feb 5, 2028 – Feb 15, 2028 · 11 days
Ushuaia
Feb 7, 2028 – Feb 17, 2028 · 11 days
Punta Arenas
Feb 9, 2028 – Feb 19, 2028 · 12 days
Ushuaia
Feb 12, 2028 – Feb 22, 2028 · 11 days
Feb 18, 2028 – Feb 29, 2028 · 13 days
Ushuaia
Feb 21, 2028 – Mar 2, 2028 · 11 days
Feb 24, 2028 – Mar 11, 2028 · 17 days
Ushuaia
Mar 3, 2028 – Mar 13, 2028 · 11 days
Ushuaia
Mar 11, 2028 – Mar 23, 2028 · 13 days
Ushuaia
Mar 12, 2028 – Mar 22, 2028 · 12 days
Ushuaia
Oct 28, 2028 – Nov 16, 2028 · 19 days
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Wildlife
A stocky, orange-billed penguin of the genus Pygoscelis, closest kin to the Adélie and Chinstrap. Its loud, trumpeting call, delivered with head thrown back, carries across the shoreline colonies where expedition landings are made.
Wildlife
Named for the thin black band under its chin, the chinstrap penguin looks as if it is wearing a helmet. Listen for it before you see it: it has one of the loudest, harshest calls of any penguin.