Deception Island
Deception Island is a flooded volcanic caldera in the South Shetland Islands that's home to Whaler's Bay, an abandoned whaling station and former U.K. base.
Half Moon Island
Half Moon Island is where the cliffs house Chinstrap penguins, Antarctic terns, Kelp gulls, other birds.
Yankee Harbour
Yankee Harbour is rife with seals and about 4,000 breeding pairs of Gentoo penguins!
Cuverville Island
Heading for the Antarctic Peninsula proper, we'll see Cuverville Island, with the largest known colony of Gentoo penguins in Antarctica.
Neko Harbour
Neko Harbour is a favorite Minke whale feeding ground.
Paradise Harbour
Paradise Harbour is named for its beauty and home to Gentoos and Chinstraps as well as Argentine and Chilean bases. Paradise Harbour is one of the two ports used for Hurtigruten's explorer cruise ship MV Fram and cruise ships to stop on the continent. The other port is Neko Harbour.
Lemaire Channel
Lemaire Channel is one of the most beautiful passages in Antarctica-with Humpback and Killer whales, Elephant seals and all types of penguins are common sights.
Petermann Island
Petermann Island is favored by the southernmost Gentoo colony as well as Blue-eyed shags (Imperial cormorants) and Adelie penguins.
Port Lockroy
In Port Lockroy you can visit a museum run by the Antarctic Heritage Trust and mail postcards stamped and canceled with rare Antarctic stamps and frank.
Wilhelmina Bay
Wilhelmina Bay is the scenic resting place of Norwegian whaling ship "Guvernoren", which ran aground and burned here in 1915.
Antarctic Sound
The 30-mile-long Antarctic Sound—dubbed "Iceberg Alley," it's a startling assortment of floating ice, including mile-long tabular icebergs.
Brown Bluff
Brown Bluff is a 2,450-foot-high cliff at the tip of the peninsula that draws Adelie and Gentoo penguins, Kelp gulls and Weddell seals.
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