Visit South Georgia

Boardwalk to nesting wandering albatrosses — the largest wingspan of any bird — on a tiny island in the Bay of Isles.

Retrace the last leg of Shackleton's 1916 rescue march over the pass from Fortuna Bay to the Stromness whaling station.

Beaches packed with seals and penguins.

Zodiac cruises past glacier fronts into fjords like Drygalski, with fur seals and icebergs.

Sail through a narrow gap into the flooded caldera of an active volcano, past a ruined whaling station and beaches warm enough to dig a hot bath.

Fly or ice-break to the Snow Hill or Gould Bay colonies to stand among thousands of the largest penguins on Earth.

Sail past icebergs, glaciers and penguin colonies.

Emperor penguins walk seventy miles to breed in the Antarctic winter; Morgan Freeman narrates.