Antarctica & Falklands Expedition
Antarctica – go where few have gone before
AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC and Hurtigruten Expeditions have partnered to offer you this oncein-a-lifetime experience. Explore Antarctica during its summer, touring icebergs and visiting penguin colonies ashore.You’ll also go to the Falkland Islands, visit its capital Stanley and see penguins and seals.
Hosted by David Haslingden, owner of Australian Geographic and chair of the Australian Geographic Society, join us on this journey and enjoy exclusives only available to Australian Geographic and Hurtigruten Expeditions guests.
Departures & fares
Departs 21 November 2022 aboard state-of-the-art, world’s first hybridpowered ship, MS Roald Amundsen.
From $12,317pp twin share
Expedition highlights
● Hosted by David Haslingden, owner of Australian Geographic and chair of the Australian Geographic Society.
● Additional inclusions and exclusives for Australian Geographic travellers.
● Escorted landings with small expedition boats while in Antarctica.
● Accompanied by Hurtigruten Expeditions’ expert expedition team
● Citizen science programme allowing you to assist with live scientific research.
● Use of the ship’s Science Centre, which has an extensive library, advanced biological and geological microscopes.
● Itinerary: 16 days
Start off in the romanceinfused city of Buenos Aires before heading to Ushuaia where your hybrid-powered ship is docked. We sail the Drake Passage and arrive at the white wilderness of Antarctica where you’ll spend five wonderful days. Exactly where we go and when, is down to the sea ice and weather conditions on the day, but we’ll always bring you to the best spots available at the time. During November, you’ll see thousands of penguins courting and building nests. Throughout your journey, you can join the expedition team in fascinating lectures, landings and ice-cruises.
The rolling green hills and white-sand beaches of the Falkland Islands will be a welcome sight, as will the friendly pubs in the capital of Stanley. Spend time touring the picturesque archipelago where we go ashore to visit a variety of penguin and seal colonies.
After two weeks of enjoying Antarctica and the Falklands, we dock back in Ushuaia to complete our epic journey.
THIS COMPREHENSIVE TOUR of Bruny’s much-lauded highlights – flora, fauna and history – is also all-inclusive of Tassie’s fabulous food and beverages (and features lots of it!). Relaxed and informal, it makes use of
Inala Private Reserve, a 600ha Land for Wildlife property that’s home to a variety of threatened species and all 12 of Tasmania’s endemic birds (see page 52).You’ll also be treated to night tours of a penguin rookery and search for other noctural animals, including Tasmanian pademelons and eastern quolls.The tour also includes transfers to and from Hobart.
Departures & fares
11–13 January 2022 8–10 April 2022 27–29 November 2022 From $2360pp twin share $2440pp single (shared bathroom)
Expedition highlights
● Visit Bruny’s southern coastline to view the second-oldest lighthouse in Australia, and search for tawny-crowned honeyeaters, olive whistlers and yellow-tailed black-cockatoos.
● After dark, visit little penguin and short-tailed shearwater colonies to view these species at their burrows, as well as Tasmanian pademelons and eastern quolls.
● Visit Adventure Bay to explore the beautiful beaches, and cool temperate rainforests.
● Visit the fantastic stone arch on Cape Queen Elizabeth and The Neck.
Explore this wild and unique island
● Day 1: Meet your guide at Hobart’s waterfront before our ferry trip to the island, followed by a picnic lunch of local Tasmanian and Bruny produce.
This afternoon we visit Bruny’s southern coastline to view the second-oldest lighthouse in Australia. Here we have a chance to see the Tasmanian subspecies of shortbeaked echidna, one of Australia’s two egg-laying mammal (monotreme) species
After dinner we visit little penguin and short-tailed shearwater colonies.
● Day 2: Walk around the Inala Private Reserve where we view at close range the endangered and endemic forty-spotted pardalote as well as raptors such as wedge-tailed eagles and grey goshawks.
Visit Adventure Bay’s beautiful beaches, and cool temperate rainforests containing some Gondwanan and Tasmanian endemic flora. After lunch, we visit the site of collection of the first botanical specimens of the genus Eucalyptus and stroll along a reserve lined with giant tree-ferns.
After dinner, enjoy an opportunity to view some of the island’s nocturnal wildlife.
● Day 3: Visit a fantastic stone arch on Cape Queen Elizabeth, with a stop en route at The Neck to absorb the magnificent views. Lunch provides the chance to sample local oysters and cheeses.
We loop around to Dennes Point with its fabulous views of South Arm and Mt Wellington and walk the short history trail in Dennes Point, before returning you to Hobart around 5pm, bursting with memories.