Ross Sea With Helicopters - West
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Overview
Highlights
- Explore Antarctic Peninsula sail through spectacular Lemaire Channel
- Experience Sailing south through the Penola Strait
- See the awesome Bellingshausen Sea
- Enjoy the fabulous sail through the Amundsen Sea along
- Visit Ross Island, guarded by Mount Erebus
- Visit Campbell Island UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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- Cabin accommodations, all shore excursions and activities throughout the voyage by Zodiac and led by experienced expedition staff leaders, ship-to-shore helicopter transfers (with no specific amount of helicopter time guaranteed), and lecture programs by noted naturalists,.
- All meals throughout the voyage (including snacks, coffee and tea), use of rubber boots and snowshoes, luggage transfer from pick-up point to the vessel on the day of embarkation, all miscellaneous service taxes and port charges, comprehensive pre-departure material.
Itinerary
In the afternoon, we embark in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world located at the Beagle Channel and sail through this scenic waterway for the rest of the evening.
At sea.
We arrive in the Antarctic Peninsula and in the morning sail through the spectacular Lemaire Channel and land on Pléneau Island, where fur seals may haul- out on the beaches. Gentoo Penguins, Kelp Gulls and South Polar Skuas are confirmed breeders.
Pléneau Isla...
Sailing south through the Penola Strait, we arrive at the Fish Islands.
The small islands lying east of Flouder Island are called the Minnows, first charted by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934- 37) of John Rymill. We may observe Adélie Penguins and Blue...
Bellingshausen Sea, where we may see our first pack- ice.
Peter I Island or in Norwegian Peter I Øy is an uninhabited volcanic island (19 kilometres long) in the Bellingshausen Sea.
It was discovered by Fabian von Bellingshausen in 1821 and was named after the Russian Tsar Peter I. It is claimed by Norway and consider...
These days we sail through the Amundsen Sea along and through the outer fringes of the pack- ice, while we take advantage of the west- going Antarctic coastal current.
The sailing along and through the ice is very lively, with sightings of single straggling Emp...
We approach the Ross Ice Shelf, a floating mass of land- ice, with a front 30 meters high.
In the Bay of Whales at the eastern side of the shelf, close to Roosevelt Island (named by the American aviator Richard E. Byrd in 1934 for President Franklin D. Roosevel...
Along the Ross Ice Shelf we sail to the west.
Days 17- 21: Ross Sea
In the Ross Sea we intend to visit Ross Island, guarded by Mount Erebus, Mount Terror and Mount Byrd with all the famous spots which played such an important role in the dramatic British...
Sailing northward along the west coast of the Ross Sea, we pass by the Drygalski Ice Tongue and the Italian Mario Zucchelli Station in Terra Nova Bay.
Should the ice prevent us from entering Terra Nova Bay we may progress further north were we find the specially protected area of Cape Hallet with a large Adélie Penguin rookery.
We will attempt to make a landing at Cape Adare. This is the place where people for the very first time wintered on the Antarctic Continent. The hut where the Norwegian Borchgrevink stayed in 1899 is surrounded by the largest colony of Adélie Penguins in the World.
Working our way through the sea- ice at the entrance of the Ross Sea and start our journey north through the Southern Ocean. Depending on weather conditions we may opt to set a course sailing by Scott Island.
We plan to visit the sub- Antarctic New Zealand Reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site of Campbell Island, with a luxuriant and blooming vegetation.
The fauna on Campbell Island is fantastic with a large and easily accessible colony of Southern Royal Albatros...
At sea en- route to Bluff, New Zealand
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