Antarctica Trip: Overview

Towards Under Down Under – An overview

From Ushuaia to Antarctica and back needed 10 days.

1. It took us through Beagle Channel and over Drake Passage to touch down at South Shetland Islands – a set of islands northwest of Antarctica. Here we went to three islands – Yankee Harbor on Greenwich Islands, Half Moon Island and Deception Island.
2. From these sub Antarctic islands we went via Bransfield Strait and Gerlache Strait to hit Cuverville Island in Errera Channel.
3. From Cuverville, the ship took us to Almirante Brown in Paradise Bay. Almirante Brown is an Argentinian station on continental Antarctica and where we camped overnight.
4. From Paradise Bay we went to the southernmost point of our trip – Petermann Islands via the scenic Lemaire Channel. (65"10.6' South, 64"7' West).
5. From here we sailed back up via Lemaire and Peltier Channel to Port Lockroy, a British outpost and the southernmost shopping centre in the world!
6. After Port Lockroy, we went up the stunning Neumayer Channel and then eastwards towards Neko Harbor on the continent.
7. Our last landing was at Danco Islands in the Errera Channel (yes, we went by this water body on our way down)
8. We then sailed northwest, pass the Melchior Islands. These islands lie between Anvers Island and Brabant Islands.
9. Then it was 2 days across the Drake Passage and back into the Beagle Channel before we hit Ushuaia.
   

From this world to the other – all in 10 days!!