Cruises visiting Ross Sea

The Ross Sea is Antarctica's remote deep south, reached on long expeditions from New Zealand or Australia. It holds the continent's most storied huts — Scott's and Shackleton's expedition bases, preserved in the cold exactly as they were left.

Expect emperor and Adélie penguins in vast numbers, the Ross Ice Shelf's endless white cliff, active volcano Mount Erebus, and the McMurdo Dry Valleys. These voyages are rare, long and priced accordingly — the connoisseur's Antarctica.