Falklands & South Georgia · 57°30′S · 43°00′W
Southern Ocean Arc • Marine Mammal Highway
177 upcoming Antarctic expeditions with Scotia Sea on the route, from $8,997.
Weddell Sea
Nov 2, 2028 – Nov 19, 2028 · 18 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
Weddell Sea
Nov 8, 2028 – Nov 29, 2028 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
South Georgia
Nov 9, 2028 – Nov 26, 2028 · 18 days
Ushuaia, Argentina
Falkland Islands
Nov 11, 2028 – Nov 26, 2028 · 16 days
Weddell Sea
Nov 15, 2028 – Dec 2, 2028 · 18 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
South Georgia
Nov 27, 2028 – Dec 18, 2028 · 21 days
South Georgia
Dec 6, 2028 – Dec 18, 2028 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
South Georgia
Dec 7, 2028 – Dec 29, 2028 · 23 days
Falkland Islands
Dec 15, 2028 – Dec 30, 2028 · 16 days
South Georgia
Dec 18, 2028 – Dec 28, 2028 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
Weddell Sea
Dec 19, 2028 – Jan 9, 2029 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
Weddell Sea
Dec 22, 2028 – Jan 8, 2029 · 18 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
South Georgia
Dec 28, 2028 – Jan 9, 2029 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
South Georgia
Dec 28, 2028 – Jan 19, 2029 · 23 days
South Georgia
Jan 7, 2029 – Jan 25, 2029 · 19 days
Ushuaia, Argentina
South Georgia
Jan 9, 2029 – Jan 24, 2029 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
South Georgia
Jan 12, 2029 – Jan 29, 2029 · 18 days
Ushuaia, Argentina
Weddell Sea
Jan 18, 2029 – Feb 8, 2029 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
Falkland Islands
Jan 18, 2029 – Feb 2, 2029 · 16 days
South Georgia
Jan 18, 2029 – Feb 9, 2029 · 23 days
South Georgia
Jan 24, 2029 – Feb 11, 2029 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
South Georgia
Jan 26, 2029 – Feb 19, 2029 · 25 days
Weddell Sea
Jan 29, 2029 – Feb 19, 2029 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
South Georgia
Feb 8, 2029 – Mar 2, 2029 · 23 days
South Georgia
Feb 11, 2029 – Feb 26, 2029 · 18 days
Puerto Williams
Weddell Sea
Feb 17, 2029 – Mar 6, 2029 · 18 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
Falkland Islands
Feb 21, 2029 – Mar 8, 2029 · 16 days
South Georgia
Feb 27, 2029 – Mar 17, 2029 · 19 days
Ushuaia (Argentina)
Weddell Sea
Feb 27, 2029 – Mar 20, 2029 · 21 days
Buenos Aires
South Georgia
Mar 1, 2029 – Mar 23, 2029 · 23 days
South Georgia
Mar 4, 2029 – Mar 24, 2029 · 21 days
South Georgia
Mar 9, 2029 – Mar 26, 2029 · 18 days
Punta Arenas, Chile
South Georgia
Mar 12, 2029 – Mar 29, 2029 · 18 days
Punta Arenas, Chile
Whales & Dolphins
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.
Whales & Dolphins
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.
Albatrosses & Seabirds
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.
Albatrosses & Seabirds
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.
Whales & Dolphins
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.
Whales & Dolphins
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.
Whales & Dolphins
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.
Whales & Dolphins
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.
Whales & Dolphins
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.
Albatrosses & Seabirds
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.
Albatrosses & Seabirds
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.
Albatrosses & Seabirds
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.
Albatrosses & Seabirds
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.
Albatrosses & Seabirds
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.
