1,000 departures across 14 operators and 39 ships
79 upcoming Antarctic expeditions with Deception Island on the route, from $7,300 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.
Polar Latitudes Ocean Victory 175 guests
Feb 21, 2028 – Mar 2, 2028 · 11 days
Aurora Expeditions Douglas Mawson 130 guests
Feb 24, 2028 – Mar 11, 2028 · 17 days
Ushuaia
Aurora Expeditions Sylvia Earle 130 guests
Mar 3, 2028 – Mar 13, 2028 · 11 days
Ushuaia
Oceanwide Expeditions m/v Ortelius 108 guests
Mar 11, 2028 – Mar 23, 2028 · 13 days
Ushuaia
Aurora Expeditions Sylvia Earle 130 guests
Mar 12, 2028 – Mar 22, 2028 · 12 days
Ushuaia
Secret Atlas Aureum 36 guests
Oct 28, 2028 – Nov 16, 2028 · 19 days
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Secret Atlas Aureum 36 guests
Oct 28, 2028 – Nov 15, 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.