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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
Glide in silence through the Lemaire Channel — Antarctica's most dramatic waterway — flanked by 900-metre cliffs and jewel-blue icebergs. A private Zodiac puts you inches from the ice, at your own pace, with a dedicated polar guide.
Spend a night sleeping on the Antarctic continent itself — bivouacking on the snow with nothing between you and the polar sky. It is the rawest, most intimate encounter with the seventh continent possible.
Paddle a sea kayak through Paradise Bay — widely regarded as Antarctica's most beautiful anchorage — threading between turquoise icebergs and beneath calving glacier faces in complete silence. A bucket-list experience that fewer than 1% of Antarctica visitors attempt.
Hike to a clifftop ridge above Orne Harbour for a breathtaking overhead view of a vast chinstrap and Gentoo penguin rookery — one of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on the planet. You are surrounded, on all sides, by thousands of penguins.
Step ashore at Port Lockroy — a perfectly preserved British wartime base from 1944, now a living museum and the world's most southerly working post office. Send a postcard stamped from Antarctica and walk through 80 years of polar history.
Plunge into the near-freezing waters of the Southern Ocean and earn your place in the legendary Polar Plunge Club — one of Antarctica's most exhilarating rites of passage. Shared with a handful of fellow adventurers, it is an elemental, unforgettable minute.
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