Fish Islands, Antarctic Circle

Late last evening we sailed through the very scenic Lemaire C ...

A Gentoo Penguin Surveys Zodiac Operations from High Atop Cuverville Island

What a day! Brigh ...

Deception Island & Trinity Island, South Shetlands

We learn in fragments. Pieces of the ...

Brown Bluff, The Weddell Sea, Paulet Island

By questioning, we learn. And by pushing those q ...

Cape Lookout, Elephant Island

After a smooth and benign crossing of the infamous Drake Passa ...

Drake Passage

With great anticipation, we are on our way south to Antarctica. After departin ...

At Sea

The seas have calmed and, all about, the albatrosses, giant petrels, and dolphins are ...

At Sea

National Geographic Endeavour's bow has turned north towards the Southern Ti ...

Port Lockroy & the Gerlache

We awoke in the sheltered harbour at Port Lockroy this morni ...

Pléneau Island & Palmer Station

As the glass dropped precipitously to herald the ...