Antarctica Travel Guide

Good morning great Adventure Life friends!!! Just a quick note to let you all know that we have fallen in deep deep love with Antarctica. I will fill you in on all the details when we get back, but let's just say ... spectacular. Here's a bit of our checklist: kayaking through icebergs, camping on the continent, humpback whales, …

Seals belong to the group of animals called pinnipeds (which also includes walruses and sea lions, though the latter are absent from Antarctica). They thrive in the nutrient-rich waters of the polar regions, which demonstrates their extraordinary adaptation to extreme weather conditions. This adaptability is evident in the distinct physical …

The Ross Sea is a region located in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. Its significance stems not only from its geographical accessibility, but also from the legacy of the historic huts that remain standing on its shores and nearby islands. These huts are important connections to early 20th-century polar expeditions and provide valuable insights …

The Ross Sea is a vast region along the Antarctic coastline that provides a largely uncharted Antarctic experience. Unlike the more frequently visited Antarctic Peninsula, the Ross Sea offers a journey into a more remote, pristine, and historically significant part of the continent. This area is regarded by scientists as one of the clearest …

The Ross Sea is located 320 kilometers from the South Pole and is known as one of Antarctica's most ecologically vital regions. This bay is rich in biodiversity and serves as a habitat for many marine species. Each year, approximately 200 visitors go to this destination to explore the environment, geological formations, and wildlife that this …

It was an extraordinary trip; Antarctica, a continent, is an environment of monochromatic beauty accented with remarkable lighting. All the shades of white, grey and black in the skies, clouds, ice, land and sea depict a calmness, a serenity, a cohesiveness that is almost hypnotic. Watching the landscape/seascape never grew old. See the …

An adventure along the Antarctic Peninsula with my husband following in the footsteps of famous explorers of the Heroic Age, spying out penguin colonies and experiencing once in a lifetime observations of Humpback and Minke Whales!

Its long been a dream to visit the White Continent but even still this adventure was beyond my wildest dreams.

Having spent five seasons working for the US Antarctic Program on the Ross Sea side of Antarctica, it has long been time to finally visit the Antarctic Peninsula on a cruise. With Aurora Expeditions offering a 13-day fly-cruise that spent nine full days exploring the Peninsula, aboard the brand-new Greg Mortimer, the perfect opportunity had …