173 upcoming Antarctic expeditions with Patagonia on the route, from $9,688 per person.
Patagonia frames the start or end of many Antarctic journeys — granite spires, blue glaciers and guanaco steppe shared between Chile and Argentina.
Some itineraries cruise the Chilean fjords, sailing past the glaciers of the Darwin Range before or after the far south; many travellers bolt on Torres del Paine or El Calafate by land.
Mar 7, 2028 – Mar 22, 2028 · 16 days
Mar 9, 2028 – Mar 30, 2028 · 21 days
Puerto Williams
Mar 14, 2028 – Mar 31, 2028 · 18 days
Ushuaia
Mar 18, 2028 – Apr 10, 2028 · 24 days
Mar 20, 2028 – Apr 3, 2028 · 15 days
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mar 25, 2028 – May 12, 2028 · 48 days
Buenos Aires
Mar 26, 2028 – Apr 11, 2028 · 19 days
Oct 2, 2028 – Nov 9, 2028 · 38 days
Oranjestad, Aruba
Oct 10, 2028 – Nov 20, 2028 · 41 days
Bridgetown, Barbados
Oct 12, 2028 – Oct 31, 2028 · 20 days
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oct 13, 2028 – Nov 1, 2028 · 20 days
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oct 18, 2028 – Nov 9, 2028 · 22 days
Valparaiso (Santiago), Chile
Nov 3, 2028 – Nov 18, 2028 · 16 days
Nov 15, 2028 – Dec 6, 2028 · 20 days
Valparaiso
Nov 23, 2028 – Dec 1, 2028 · 9 days
Nov 29, 2028 – Dec 7, 2028 · 9 days
Dec 18, 2028 – Jan 2, 2029 · 16 days
Dec 19, 2028 – Dec 29, 2028 · 11 days
Arrive at Weskar Lodge in Puerto Natales, Chile
Dec 21, 2028 – Dec 29, 2028 · 9 days
Dec 27, 2028 – Jan 4, 2029 · 9 days
Jan 4, 2029 – Jan 14, 2029 · 11 days
Arrive at Weskar Lodge in Puerto Natales, Chile
Jan 6, 2029 – Jan 16, 2029 · 11 days
Arrive at Weskar Lodge in Puerto Natales, Chile
Jan 18, 2029 – Jan 26, 2029 · 9 days
Jan 24, 2029 – Feb 1, 2029 · 9 days
Jan 26, 2029 – Feb 19, 2029 · 25 days
Feb 15, 2029 – Feb 23, 2029 · 9 days
Feb 21, 2029 – Mar 1, 2029 · 9 days
Feb 27, 2029 – Mar 17, 2029 · 19 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
Mar 22, 2029 – Apr 5, 2029 · 15 days
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wildlife
A small, spiky-crested penguin found around the southern tip of South America and its outlying islands. Its tangled taxonomic history makes it a quietly interesting stop on any Southern Ocean itinerary.
Wildlife
The southern elephant seal is the largest of all pinnipeds, with bulls roughly twice the bulk of a walrus. Watching a beachful of them roar and shove over territory is one of the most physical wildlife spectacles the Southern Ocean offers.
Wildlife
A stocky baleen whale with no dorsal fin and a head crusted in pale callosities, once hunted almost to extinction and now the whale most likely to breach or wave a fluke at passing ships. It favours the same cold, food-rich waters that expedition itineraries already follow.
Wildlife
A small, sharply marked black-and-white dolphin found only around the tip of South America, often seen riding the bow wave in narrow channels. Its jacobita or panda-dolphin nickname comes from the bold two-tone pattern that make it hard to mistake for anything else.
Wildlife
A small, sturdy dolphin found only in the waters off southern South America, sometimes still called the black-chinned dolphin for the dark patch under its jaw. Watch for it riding bow waves as your ship threads the channels toward Antarctica.
Wildlife
Bulky, maned bulls and sleek females haul out together on beaches from the Falklands to the Beagle Channel. Watching a dominant male defend his patch of shoreline is one of the more entertaining wildlife spectacles of the region.
Wildlife
A black-and-white cormorant with a startling ring of blue skin around each eye, nesting in dense colonies on bare coastal rock. Look for it wherever cliffs meet water, often perched stiff-winged like a heraldic emblem.