Ushuaia — the southernmost city on Earth. From here the Scenic Eclipse slips into the Beagle Channel, the Andes falling away astern.
168 metres. Ten restaurants, a spa, two pools, a butler for every suite. Just 228 guests — carried where larger ships cannot go.
The legendary Drake Passage. An ice-strengthened hull carves through the pack ice; December is the peak of whale activity — humpbacks, fin whales, orcas.
Sail into the caldera of Deception Island, land at Brown Bluff, glide by zodiac past the rookeries. The Peninsula is home to some 12 million penguins.
Few ships enter the Weddell Sea. Titanic tabular icebergs, Weddell seals, kayaking among the floes — where the Endurance expedition met the ice in 1915.
The largest penguins on Earth, reachable only in the season's first days. A helicopter sets you down beside the colony to walk among the emperors and their chicks.
A Russian-speaking expedition group, an expert lecturer-guide, and the most extraordinary corner of the planet. Few suites remain.