1,000 departures across 14 operators and 39 ships
189 upcoming Antarctic expeditions with Scotia Sea on the route, from $8,900 per person.
The Scotia Sea is the great arc of ocean linking the Falklands, South Georgia and the Peninsula — the highway of every long Southern Ocean itinerary and one of the most productive seas on the planet.
Crossings mean days among albatrosses and petrels, whale blows on the horizon, and lecture programmes that turn sea time into a floating polar university.
Seabourn Seabourn Pursuit 264 guests
Nov 8, 2028 – Nov 29, 2028 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
Quark Expeditions Ocean Explorer 138 guests
Nov 9, 2028 – Nov 26, 2028 · 18 days
Ushuaia, Argentina
Nov 15, 2028 – Dec 2, 2028 · 18 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
Lindblad Expeditions National Geographic Resolution 138 guests
Nov 27, 2028 – Dec 18, 2028 · 21 days
Silversea Cruises Silver Cloud 200 guests
Dec 6, 2028 – Dec 18, 2028 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
Silversea Cruises Silver Cloud 200 guests
Dec 18, 2028 – Dec 28, 2028 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
Seabourn Seabourn Venture 264 guests
Dec 19, 2028 – Jan 9, 2029 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
Dec 22, 2028 – Jan 8, 2029 · 18 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
Silversea Cruises Silver Cloud 200 guests
Dec 28, 2028 – Jan 9, 2029 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
Silversea Cruises Silver Cloud 200 guests
Jan 9, 2029 – Jan 24, 2029 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
Quark Expeditions World Voyager 168 guests
Jan 12, 2029 – Jan 29, 2029 · 18 days
Ushuaia, Argentina
Seabourn Seabourn Venture 264 guests
Jan 18, 2029 – Feb 8, 2029 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
Wildlife
A 14–17 metre baleen whale known for breaching and long pectoral fins, often seen feeding on krill in loose groups along the ice edge.
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Black and white apex predator instantly recognizable by its pale eye patches, the orca is the largest of the dolphins and one of the ocean's most capable hunters. Sightings often involve a tight-knit family pod working the ice edge together.
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The snowy albatross, better known as the wandering albatross, has the widest wingspan of any living bird alive today. Watch for it riding the wind for hours behind the ship without a single wingbeat.
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A large seabird of the albatross family, the black-browed albatross is the most widespread and common of all albatrosses. Its dark eye-stripe makes it one of the easiest albatrosses to pick out from a rolling deck.
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The fin whale is the second-longest animal on Earth after the blue whale, reaching up to 27 metres. Its long, slender, countershaded body is most often seen slicing through open water rather than breaching.
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The sei whale is the third-largest rorqual after the blue and fin whale, and one of the fastest cetaceans afloat, capable of short bursts near 50 km/h. It favours deep offshore water, so a sighting on the crossing south is a genuine bonus rather than a certainty.
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The blue whale is the largest animal known to have existed, reaching up to 30 metres in length and 200 tonnes in weight. Sightings are rare but unmistakable, usually a distant blow and a long grey-blue back rolling at the surface.
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The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on Earth, hunting giant squid at depths few other mammals reach. Its blunt, box-shaped head holds the largest brain of any animal.
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A small, fast-moving dolphin of the open Southern Ocean, most often glimpsed as a flash of black and white alongside the ship's bow. It has a circumpolar range but is best known to travellers for its habit of appearing mid-crossing, far from any coast.
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The Antarctic prion is the largest of the prions, a group of small Southern Ocean petrels sometimes called dove prions. Watch for loose flocks wheeling low over the swell as your ship crosses open water between landings.
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The pintado petrel, better known as the Cape petrel, is one of the most abundant seabirds of the Southern Ocean, with a population estimated at around two million. Travellers usually meet it long before they see land, tracking ships across open water.
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A small, sooty-black seabird that flits and patters over the wake like it's walking on water. Named for ornithologist Alexander Wilson, it's reckoned among the most numerous bird species on Earth.
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Pale grey above, white below, and marked with a distinctive white wing patch, the southern fulmar is a familiar shape trailing expedition ships south of the Antarctic Convergence. It breeds on Antarctic cliffs and islands, then disperses north with the winter ice.
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A large mollymawk with an ashy-grey head, throat and neck, ranging further south into the Southern Ocean than any other albatross of its kind. Look for it wheeling low over the wake in open water far from any coastline.