'In the Wake of Shackleton', an expeditionary cruise around Antarctica, Feb 2024

Holidays
An 18 day voyage through some of the most beautiful and pristine locations in the far south of Planet Earth.
I was on the same ship as in Oceania in 2019, the MV Island Sky of Noble Caledonia, a company operating smaller cruise ships, which are able to sail to locations that larger ships can't.

The voyage began at Ushuaia, at the southern end of Argentina. Taking an anticlockwise loop, we crossed the Drake Passage and visited islands of the South Shetland Islands, the mainland of the Antarctic Peninsula, Elephant Island, South Georgia and finally the Falkland Islands. .

The cruise ended back at Ushuaia, with a bus tour of part of the Patagonia National Park, before the flights home.

Itinerary

[Day]DateActivityLocationsPhotosMovies
1Thu 15 FebDriving and flightHome,LHR,Madrid
2Fri 16 FebFlightMadrid-Buenos Airesclick
3Sat 17 FebFlight and boarding shipBuenos Aires-Ushuaia. Boarded Island Sky
4Sun 18 FebSailingHeading along Beagle Channel then south through Drake's Passage
5Mon 19 FebSailingHeading southclick
6Tue 20 FebZodiac landingsHalf Moon Island and Deception Islandclickclick
7Wed 21 FebZodiac tours (non-landing)Fournier Bay and Lockroy Stationclickclick
8Thu 22 FebZodiac landingPalmer Station (USA)clickclick
9Fri 23 FebZodiac landingBrown Bluffclickclick
10Sat 24 FebZodiac tourElephant Islandclickclick
11Sun 25 FebSailingHeading to South Georgiaclick
12Mon 26 FebSailingLate trip along Drygalski Bay, S.Georgiaclickclick
13Tue 27 FebZodiac tours (non-landing)Royal Bay and St Andrew Bayclickclick
14Wed 28 FebZodiac LandingsGrytviken and Fortuna Bayclickclick
15Thu 29 FebSailingHeading west to Falklandsclick
16Fri 1 MarSailingHeading towards Port Stanley
17Sat 2 MarPort StanleyTour of 1982 battlefields, East Falklandclick
18Sun 3 MarPort Stanley then departureTown bus tour, museum, coffee and pubclick
19Mon 4 MarMooring at New IslandZodiac landing on New Island (birds)clickclick
20Tue 5 MarSailingHeading south towards Ushuaia
21Wed 6 MarDock at UshuaiaNational Park tour then to airport, flight to B.A. (hotel overnight)click
22Thu 7 MarAirport then flight to MadridFlying Iberia A350
23Fri 8 MarFlight then drive homeMadrid to Heathrow, picked up car