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Polar Circle - Antarctic Peninsula, 12 Days offered by supplier M19550 (read about supplier) Key Information: Tour Duration: 12 day(s) Group Size: 2 - 24 people Destination(s): Antarctica   Specialty Categories: Boating and Sailing   Wildlife Viewing   Season: January - December Airfare Included: No Tour Customizable: No Minimum Per Person Price: 6490 US Dollar (USD) Maximum Per Person Price: 10990 US Dollar (USD)

Tour Itinerary:

Day 1: Ushuaia. In the afternoon, we embark in Ushuaia and sail through the Beagle Channel. Includes: (D).

Days 2 & 3: Drake Passage. When we cross the Antarctic Convergence, we arrive in the circum-Antarctic up welling zone. In this area we may meet Wandering Albatrosses, Grey Headed Albatrosses, Black-browed Albatrosses, Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses, Cape Pigeons, Southern Fulmars, Wilson’s Storm Petrels, Blue Petrels and Antarctic Petrels. We might do our first landing in Antarctic waters in the evening of the third day at Aitcho Island or Penguin Island at the South Shetlands. There is a nice variety of flora (mosses, lichens and flowering grasses) and fauna (Gentoo Penguins, Chinstrap Penguins and southern Giant Petrels). Includes: (B), (L), (D).

Days 4 – 9: Polar Circle. At Deception Island, we will try to land at Baily Head home to a colony of ten thousands of Chinstrap Penguins. Deception itself is a sub ducted crater, which opens into the sea, creating a natural harbor for the ship. Here we find hot springs, an abandoned whaling station, thousands of Cape pigeons and many Dominican gulls, Brown and South Polar Skuas and Antarctic Terns. Wilson’s Storm Petrels and Black-bellied Storm Petrels nest in the ruins of the whaling station in Whalers Bay.

Good walkers may hike from Baily Head over the ridge of the crater into Whalers Bay, while our ship braves its entrance into the crater through the spectacular Neptune´s Bellow into the ring of Deception Island. On our way to the south sailing through the Gerlache Strait we will have great chances to see many Humpback Whales and Minke Whales. In Neko Harbour and Paradise Bay with its myriad icebergs and deep cut fjords, we have the opportunity to set foot on the Antarctic Continent. We shall have the opportunity for zodiac cruising between the icebergs in the inner parts of the fjords. We sail through the spectacular Lemaire Channel to Petermann Island offering Adelie Penguins and Blue-eyed Shags.

We also try to land at Pleneau Island with Elephant Seals and fair chances to encounter Humpback, Minke and Fin Whales. We head south along the Argentine Islands to Crystal Sound, south of the polar circle. The landscape is very impressive with very high mountains and huge glaciers. At the Fish Islands we land at one of the southernmost Adelie Penguin and Blue-eyed Shag colonies in the Antarctic Peninsula. At Detaille Island, south of the Polar Circle, in Crystal Sound we reach probably our farthest south. Sailing north through Neumayer Channel and Gerlache Strait, we arrive at Inverleith Harbour, where we may have our last zodiac cruises of the voyage. Includes: (B), (L), (D).

Days 10 & 11: Drake Passage. Sail back through the Drake Passage. Includes: (B), (L), (D).

Day 12: Disembark. After breakfast disembark in Ushuaia. Includes: (B).

Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.

Prices:
- Triple shared bath: $6,490 p/p
- Twin shared bath: $7,690 p/p
- Twin private bath: $8,790 p/p
- Superior: $9,990 p/p
- Suite: $10,990 p/p
- Dive supplement: $1,190 p/p.

Price Includes:
- Tanks and weights.

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