Many Antarctic travel operators have cancelled their trips. But some still want to wait and will inform quickly whether the trip will take place or not. Complicating matters are the travel restrictions in the so-called gateways, the starting points of the journeys....
This year, the penguin colonies along the Antarctic Peninsula will hardly see any human visitors. At best, it will be scientists who follow their studies. The tourist season has been de facto cancelled due to COVID. Picture: Michael Wenger Towards the end of the...
The penguin lady “Olde” lives in the Zoo in Danish Odense together with other sub-Antarctic penguin species. The 41-year-old female is listed officially in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest penguin in human care. Is the rockhopper in the...
The ship of Heritage Expeditions, the Spirit of Enderby, is a converted and comfortable Russian research vessel with space for a maximum of 50 people. Due to its high ice class, manoeuvrability and low draught, the ship can navigate to places that most other...
The site where the colony was found is situated at Cape Irizar, a rocky area south of the Drygalski Glacier tongue on the Scott Coast in the Ross Sea. Since Robert Falcon Scott had discovered this area, no Adélie penguin colony had been ever recorded here. Photo:...
