Antarctica - Polar Circle - Whale watching

Visiting the polar regions is a fantastic adventure, but just below the waves waits an extraordinary other world for you to experience and explore.

Explore the last true wilderness of our planet on foot, and absorb the beauty of the polar regions at your own pace

Enjoy birding together with fellow birders and visit remote places with rare bird-species.

A volcanic island in the South Shetlands, north of the Antarctic Peninsula

These gallant-fighting, deep-diving namesakes of the French-claimed Antarctic Adélie Land are among the four penguin species on mainland Antarctica

Though armed with the "stonebreaker" nickname and a quarrelsome reputation, these gentoo relatives are fading from the Antarctic – probably due to climate change

These hygienic divers are the only penguin species whose population is currently increasing along the Antarctic Peninsula

Also known as "great-winged newfoundlanders" for their wing-like flippers, these cetaceans earned their more contemporary name by the way they bow their backs before a dive

Technically a kind of dolphin, orcas were once thought to appear as whales in the summer and wolves in the winter

These "slender-clawed water workers" spend much of their lives submerged, though it's known they are the only member of their family to consume other seals

Though the smallest of the fin whales, these migrating mammals can let out a cry as loud as a plane taking off