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Steve Howell
This exciting cruise starts in Tierra del Fuego at Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world …
…heads south to the Antarctic Peninsula…
…then back north via South Georgia…
…and the remote outpost of Tristan da Cunha…
…to end at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
Photo: Steve Rooke
The remarkable variety of penguins (ten species are possible!) on our route ranges from the three “brush-tailed” species: Gentoo, Chinstrap, and Adelie (here a juvenile)..
..to the handsome King Penguin…
…and the punk-crested Northern Rockhopper…
…to the banded African Penguin.
Photo: Steve Rooke
Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses will feature as we cross the Drake Passage…
…to “the White Continent,” where cruising through the pack-ice we’ll search for…
…Emperor Penguin, here with Adelies and one Chinstrap.
Other ice inhabitants include ethereal Snow Petrels…
…Antarctic Killer Whales…
…predatory Leopard Seals…
…and Humpback Whales.
Ice bergs take many shapes, this one suggesting dueling dinosaurs.
Gentoo Penguins will wave us farewell…
as we head north from Antarctic dawns and sunsets…
…to the magical island of South Georgia and Grytviken Harbor, with Shackleton’s grave
The King Penguin colonies here are spectacular…
…and there are also nesting Wandering Albatross…
…and we’ll be sure to seek out the endemic South Georgia Pipit…
…before we bid farewell to the snow and ice.
Marine life as we head north from South Georgia may include Strap-toothed Beaked Whale…
…and the avifauna will change quickly, with Soft-plumaged Petrels…
…and Sooty Albatrosses.
Subantarctic Little Shearwaters can be common as we approach…
…the remote and rarely visited Gough Island, like the movie set for Connan Doyle’s Lost World.
Atlantic Petrels are also fairly common in these waters.
At the Tristan da Cunha island group (Tristan, Nightingale, and Inaccessible islands)…
…seabirds include Tristan [Brown] Skua…
…and Tristan [Antarctic] Tern, both possibly full species…
…and good numbers of tubenoses (five species here!).
Nightingale Island has lots of nesting Yellow-nosed Albatrosses…
…and is the world center for breeding Great Shearwaters
…as well as having the endemic Tristan Thrush…
…and Tristan Bunting.
Spectacled Petrels will follow our ship as we head east…
…towards the Cape of Good Hope, where seabirds are plentiful…
Photo: Steve Rooke
…and to another world of landbirds, including the handsome Bokmakarie…
Photo: Steve Rooke
…and Cape Sugarbird.
Photo: Steve Rooke