The Southern Lights (Aurora Australis) is one of nature’s most incredible scenes. Lighting up the southern skies in dramatic formations, the Aurora Australis dances across the southern hemisphere’s auroral oval. Until recently, witnessing the Southern Lights up close has largely been inaccessible to
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Renowned for being the longest and most intense expeditions of all, journeys to East Antarctica and the Ross Sea depart from Australia and New Zealand just a handful of times, every southern summer.These hard-core odysseys explore the least visited, wildest and historically significant region of the
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When it comes to photography, Antarctica is one of those curious conundrums. Here is undoubtedly one of the most photogenic places on earth yet, amidst the blinding white horizons and fast-moving wildlife (you know, aside from the elephant seals), here is also one of the hardest places to photograph
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As the author of Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine so cleverly quipped, Antarctica’s history has always been intertwined with food or, rather, the importance of having enough. Antarctic explorers’ journeys, he states, were “as much about hunger as heroism” and a
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Renowned for its impressively high standards of education, welfare and healthcare, not to mention its progressive laws, Uruguay has traditionally been more flourishing than most other Latin American nations. Aside from a stint of political instability in the 1970s, Uruguay has also been one of the m
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Which tourism operators can offer an icebreaker cruise to Antarctica? This is a question often asked from people interested in travelling to Antarctica, and it’s an interesting question for me as the questioner usually assumes that an icebreaker is the best and safest ship to travel to Antarctica. I
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