Antarctica & Falklands Expedition
Antarctica. Go where few have gone before. Join us for the trip of your lifetime.
Antarctica. Go where few have gone before. Join us for the trip of your lifetime.
Australian Geographic and Hurtigruten Expeditions have partnered to offer you a once-in-a-lifetime experience. In November next year explore Antarctica, touring icebergs and visiting penguin colonies ashore. You’ll also go to the Falkland Islands, visit its capital Stanley and see penguins and seals.
They’re about to attempt something no-one’s ever done before – 2600km in 110 days across Antarctica. Would you dare?
Expeditioners on Australia’s four Antarctic and sub-Antarctic research stations have gone for a chilly swim to celebrate the winter solstice.
Antarctica has given birth to the largest iceberg currently afloat in the world, a 4320 sq km behemoth called A-76 that is almost twice the size of the ACT.
Deep below the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf of the Weddell Sea scientists have found a community of sponges thriving on a boulder.
See the winning images from one of Australia’s richest photographic awards.
The potential for the COVID-19 virus to jump to Antarctica’s unique and already vulnerable wildlife has scientists extremely concerned.
The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean (or even the Austral ocean), is like no other and best described in superlatives. Here’s everything you need to know about why it’s so bloody important.
Twenty-five jobs are on offer at Australia’s four Antarctic and sub-Antarctic research stations for the 2021/22 season.