Our first landing on South Georgia was at St Andrews Bay in the snow. This bay is the home of one of the largest King penguin colonies.
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Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands : Deception Island on Day 8
Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands : Culverville Island on the afternoon of Day 7
Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands : Paradise Harbour on the morning of Day 7
MS Fram had stayed overnight at Dorian Bay and then made her way through amazing scenery to the first landing of the day at Paradise Harbour.
Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands : Dorian Bay in the afternoon of Day 6
MS Fram was planning to sail through the Lemaire channel to Petermann Island as we all were eating lunch or resting. But another expedition ship reported that it had found the channel blocked by ice so our next landing had to be switched. Plan B was a landing at Dorian Bay which we would reach […]
Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands : Neko Harbour on the morning of Day 6
In the morning of the 6th day of our expedition voyage on MS Fram, we arrived at Neko Harbour on mainland Antarctica for our first landing.
Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands Day 5: Drake Passage
In the afternoon of our second day out from Ushuaia in Drake Passage we reached Antarctica and saw our first icebergs, whales, penguins and seals.