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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.
Step onto the volcanic black-sand shore of Half Moon Island and walk quietly among thousands of chinstrap penguins nesting beneath jagged peaks.
Walk the black sand caldera of an active volcano past rusting whaling-era boilers and the shell of a British research base, one of Antarctica's strangest historic sites.
Visit the restored 1944 British base, now a living museum and the world's southernmost post office, staffed each summer by a small UK Antarctic Heritage Trust team.
Paddle a sea kayak through drifting brash ice beneath the Antarctic Peninsula's steep glaciated cliffs, then land beside the largest gentoo penguin rookery in the region.
Set foot on the actual Antarctic continent (not just the islands) at this glacier-ringed bay, and watch for calving ice from a quiet vantage above the beach.
Wander a low, tundra-like island between two colonies — gentoo and chinstrap penguins on one side, wallowing elephant seals on the other — with almost no elevation to climb.
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to — each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.
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