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PUERTO MONTT - USHUAIA 19 days/18 nights - 1st November 2021 The Emperor Penguins of Bellingshausen From € 22,290

PUERTO MONTT Flights Santiago CHILE (Chile)

ARGENTINA USHUAIA

Drake Passage

Antarctic Circle Ice oe The Gullet Detaille Island Charcot Island Pourquoi Pas Island Marguerite Bay English Coast

Beyond Peter I Island and Charcot Island, this exceptional cruise will take you into the heart of the Bellingshausen Sea. Named in honour of DAY ITINERARY* the Russian admiral and explorer who discovered Antarctica in 1820, this sea in the Southern , covered by ice floe most of the time, is One-night stay at the hotel in Santiago on the eve of hard to reach and practically unexplored. But the reward lives up to the challenge: gigantic colonies of emperor penguins, a unique species embarkation. 1 Flight Santiago (Chile)/Puerto Montt (Chile) endemic to the Antarctic and almost never observed, live here. This animal, elegant and majestic, is the promise of emotional encounters. In Welcome and transfer to the port. this season, as winter gradually gives way to the austral spring, the chicks, only a few weeks old, become independent and gather in immense Puerto Montt (Chile) - Departure: 18.00 “creches”: a magical spectacle to which you will be privileged witnesses. 2 to 4 At sea 5 Crossing the Antarctic Circle 6 At sea 7 & 8 Expedition to Charcot Island Highlights*: 9 & 10 Expedition to Peter I Island 11 & 12 English Coast - in search of emperor penguins 13 Marguerite Bay • A unique opportunity to approach colonies of emperor penguins Stonington Island 14 bringing together adults and young at the end of the austral winter. Pourquoi Pas Island • Outings and shore visits in Zodiac® inflatables. The Gullet 15 • Lectures and information sessions hosted by our naturalist-guides. Detaille Island • Approach two islands beyond the Antarctic Polar Circle. 16 At sea 17 & 18 Crossing the Drake Passage • Hiking opportunity. Ushuaia (Argentina). Disembarkation and transfer to the 19 • Landscapes: glaciers, , thick ice floes, ice shelves. airport. Flight Ushuaia (Argentina)/Santiago (Chile) • Wildlife: emperor penguins, humpback whales, gentoo penguins, Weddell seals. *Subject to ice and weather conditions. The expedition highlights and itineraries described above illustrate possible experiences only and cannot be guaranteed. USHUAIA - USHUAIA - 12 days/11 nights 3rd & 28th December 2021, 22nd January 2022, 14th & The & Larsen Ice Shelf 25th March 2022 From € 12,250 ARGENTINA USHUAIA Flights Santiago (Chile) Drake Passage

South Shetland Islands North

Weddell Sea Larsen Ice Shelf Ice oe

Insurmountable, extreme and captivating: this is the best way to describe the Weddell Sea, mostly frozen by a thick and compressed ice floe. DAY ITINERARY* It is a challenge and a privilege to sail on it, with its promise of exceptional landscapes and original encounters. As you advance across this One-night stay at the hotel in Santiago on the eve of immense polar expanse, you will enter an infinite ice desert, a world of silence where there is nothing but calm and serenity. To the north- embarkation. west of the Weddell Sea, stretching along the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, stands an imposing ice shelf known as the Larsen Ice 1 Flight Santiago (Chile)/Ushuaia (Argentina) Welcome and transfer to the port. Shelf. An extension of the ice sheet onto the sea, this white giant is equally disturbing and fascinating, if only due to its colossal dimensions Ushuaia (Argentina) - Departure: 18.00 and the impressive table top icebergs - amongst the largest ever seen - that it generates. This voyage will be an opportunity to come as close 2 & 3 Crossing the Drake Passage as possible to the Weddell Sea, a real refuge for wildlife. 4 South Shetland Islands 5 North Antarctic Peninsula 6 The Weddell Sea Highlights*: 7 & 8 Sailing toward Larsen Ice Shelf 8 & 9 The Weddell Sea • Sail into the heart of the ice of the Weddell Sea, discovering the 10 & 11 Crossing the Drake Passage impressive Larsen Ice Shelf and its immense table top icebergs. Ushuaia (Argentina). Disembarkation and transfer to the 12 • Outings and shore visits in Zodiac® inflatables. airport. Flight Ushuaia (Argentina)/Santiago (Chile)

• Lectures and information sessions hosted by our naturalist-guides. 22nd January 2022 departure: • Landscapes: alpine landscapes, table top icebergs, glaciers, ice floes. A cruise in partnership with National Geographic Expeditions offering enrichment with a Photographer • Wildlife: Weddell seals, crabeater seals and leopard seals, Adelie and an Expert onboard. penguins, humpback whales, sea birds. *Subject to ice and weather conditions. The expedition highlights and itineraries described above illustrate possible experiences only and cannot be guaranteed. USHUAIA - USHUAIA - 15 days/14 nights 19th November 2021, 14th December 2021, Expedition to Charcot & Peter I Islands 8th January 2022, 2nd February 2022 From € 14,440 ARGENTINA Flights Santiago USHUAIA (Chile)

Drake Passage

Antarctic Circle Ice oe The Gullet Detaille Island Bellingshausen Sea Pourquoi Pas Island Marguerite Bay Peter I Island Charcot Island

Landing on Peter I Island is like landing on the moon! In fact, fewer people have visited this small volcanic island located in the Bellingshausen DAY ITINERARY* Sea, 450 km from the Antarctic coastlines, than have set foot on lunar soil. Discovered in February 1821, Peter I Island could only be One-night stay at the hotel in Santiago on the eve approached for the first time in 1929, as the ice front made approach and disembarkation difficult. Its summit still remains untouched to this of embarkation. Flight Santiago (Chile)/Ushuaia 1 day. This unusual itinerary will also provide an opportunity to approach Charcot Island, thus named by Captain Charcot in memory of his (Argentina). Welcome and transfer to the port. Ushuaia (Argentina) - Departure: 18.00 father during its discovery in 1910. 2 & 3 Crossing the Drake Passage Crossing the Antarctic Circle 4 Detaille Island The Gullet 5 Pourquoi Pas Island 6 Marguerite Bay Highlights*: 7 & 8 Expedition to Charcot Island 9 & 10 Expedition to Peter I Island 11 At sea 12 The Gullet • Be among the few people on who have approached two 13 & 14 Crossing the Drake Passage islands beyond the Antarctic Polar Circle. Ushuaia (Argentina). Disembarkation and transfer to the 15 • Outings and shore visits in Zodiac® inflatables. airport. Flight Ushuaia (Argentina)/Santiago (Chile) • Lectures and information sessions hosted by our naturalist-guides. 8th January 2022 departure: A cruise in partnership with National • Hiking opportunity. Geographic Expeditions offering enrichment with a Photographer • Wildlife: humpback whales, gentoo penguins, Weddell seals. and an Expert onboard. *Subject to ice and weather conditions. The expedition highlights and itineraries described above illustrate possible experiences only and cannot be guaranteed. USHUAIA - USHUAIA 25 days/24 nights - 16th February 2022 The From € 25,570

ARGENTINA Flights Santiago (Chile) USHUAIA Drake Passage Antarctic Peter I Island Circle Charcot Island Bellingshausen Sea Ice oe Burke Island Siple Island

Ruppert Coast ANTARCTIC Ross Cape Colbeck Sea Ross Ice Shelf

DAY ITINERARY* Sailing the Ross Sea means discovering one of the most extreme and conserved universes in the Antarctic. Partially occupied by the Ross One-night stay at the hotel in Santiago on the eve of Ice Shelf, the largest ice platform in Antarctica, this immense bay located several hundred kilometres from the South Pole, is considered as embarkation. “the last ocean”, the last intact marine ecosystem and the largest marine sanctuary since 2016. Here, the cold is more intense, the wind more 1 Flight Santiago (Chile)/Ushuaia (Argentina) Welcome and transfer to the port. powerful, the ice more impressive, and the scenery more spectacular… In the heart of this polar Garden of Eden, where the ice shelf turns Ushuaia (Argentina) - Departure: 18.00 into icebergs, you will encounter prodigious fauna, as well as surrealist landscapes, with infinite shades of blue and stunning reliefs. Antarctic 2 & 3 Crossing the Drake Passage 4 Crossing the Antarctic Circle petrels, Minke whales, orcas and seals are at home here, as are very large colonies of Adelie and emperor penguins. 5 Expedition to Charcot Island 6 Expedition to Peter I Island 7 & 8 Bellingshausen Sea 9 At sea Highlights*: 10 Siple Island 11 At sea 12 Ruppert Coast 13 Cape Colbeck • Sail as close as possible to the South Pole, in the heart of the Ross 14 The Ross Sea Sea, one the world’s last marine sanctuaries. 15 The Ross Ice Shelf • Outings and shore visits in Zodiac® inflatables. 16 At sea • Lectures and information sessions hosted by our naturalist-guides. 17 Ruppert Coast 18 At sea • Landscapes: icebergs, glaciers, ice floes, ice shelves. 19 Burke Island • Wildlife: Adelie penguins, emperor penguins, Ross seals, crabeater 20 & 21 Expedition to Peter I Island seals, leopard seals, Minke whales, sea birds. 22 At sea 23 & 24 Crossing the Drake Passage Ushuaia (Argentina). Disembarkation and transfer to the 25 airport. Flight Ushuaia (Argentina)/Santiago (Chile)

*Subject to ice and weather conditions. The expedition highlights and itineraries described above illustrate possible experiences only and cannot be guaranteed. USHUAIA - MONTEVIDEO 18 days/17 nights - 5th April 2022 The Weddell Sea & the South Sandwich Islands From € 16,610

URUGUAY MONTEVIDEO

ARGENTINA Flight Santiago (Chile) South Georgia USHUAIA Drake Passage South Sandwich South Islands Shetland Islands North Antarctic Peninsula

Ice oe Weddell Sea

From , to the Antarctic peninsula, via South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, this all-new itinerary will take you into the DAY ITINERARY* heart of the Scotia Arc. This volcanic archipelago at the junction of the cordillera and the Antarctandes will be revealed to you in all its One-night stay at the hotel in Santiago on the eve of embarkation. riches and splendour. All the wildlife of the Far South can be found there: king and gentoo penguins, elephant seals, fur seals mingle on the 1 Flight Santiago (Chile)/Ushuaia (Argentina) beautiful dark sand beaches… At sea, orcas, humpback whales and other cetaceans will escort you along your navigation through frozen Welcome and transfer to the port. Ushuaia (Argentina) - Departure: 18.00 waters. This cruise will also be an opportunity to discover four very different ecosystems, from the wooded heights of the Tierra del Fuego and 2 & 3 Crossing the Drake Passage the table top icebergs of the Weddell Sea to the glacier-covered mountains of the South Sandwich Islands and the snow-capped summits 4 South Shetland Islands of South Georgia. 5 North Antarctic Peninsula 6 & 7 The Weddell Sea Southern Thule, South Sandwich Islands Highlights*: 8 Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands 9 Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands • Discover an all-new itinerary along the Scotia Arc, between the Atlantic 10 Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Islands and Southern . 11 At sea • Outings and shore visits in Zodiac® inflatables. 12 & 13 South Georgia • Lectures and information sessions hosted by our naturalist-guides. 14 to 17 At sea Montevideo (Uruguay). • Landscapes: volcanic mountains on the South Sandwich Islands, table 18 top icebergs in the Weddell, glaciers, ice floes. Disembarkation. • Wildlife: king penguins, Adelie penguins, fur seals, elephant seals, whales, sea birds. *Subject to ice and weather conditions. The expedition highlights and itineraries described above illustrate possible experiences only and cannot be guaranteed.