12 upcoming Antarctic expeditions with South Sandwich Islands on the route, from $13,100 per person.
The South Sandwich Islands are an active volcanic arc in the far Scotia Sea that almost no itinerary reaches — landing here is a genuine rarity even among expedition staff. Steaming craters rise straight from some of the wildest seas on the planet.
Zavodovski Island hosts one of Earth's largest penguin colonies: over a million chinstraps nesting on the warm flanks of a live volcano.
Dec 27, 2026 – Jan 14, 2027 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Jan 9, 2027 – Jan 28, 2027 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Jan 16, 2027 – Feb 3, 2027 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Jan 16, 2027 – Feb 4, 2027 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Feb 7, 2027 – Mar 6, 2027 · 28 days
Ushuaia
Feb 10, 2027 – Mar 1, 2027 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Dec 19, 2027 – Jan 6, 2028 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Dec 27, 2027 – Jan 15, 2028 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Jan 6, 2028 – Jan 24, 2028 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Jan 18, 2028 – Feb 5, 2028 · 19 days
Ushuaia
Mar 11, 2028 – Jun 15, 2028 · 96 days
Buenos Aires
Mar 11, 2028 – May 31, 2028 · 81 days
Buenos Aires
Wildlife
Look for the shaggy yellow eyebrows: this stocky, crested penguin breeds in dense, noisy colonies across the Southern Ocean. It's the most numerous penguin species on Earth, though its numbers have been falling since the 1970s.
Wildlife
A small, quick-moving seal named almost by accident after the German ship that first collected it near Kerguelen, not for the continent it's rarely seen on. Despite the name, most encounters happen on subantarctic beaches, not the Antarctic mainland.