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Discover South Georgia
The northern bays of the island have wide glacial outwash plains left behind by retreating ice walls. The king penguins occupy this terrain in St. Andrews Bay year-round due to their 14-to-16-month breeding cycles, meaning vast fields of brown, fluffy chicks stand directly alongside adults dressed in orange and blue plumage.
Nestled inside the sheltered waters of Cumberland East Bay is Grytviken, the heart of the Southern Ocean whaling trade. The site is preserved as an open-air ledger, where massive, rusted blubber cookers, iron whale-oil tanks, and listing scuttled harpoon vessels stand starkly against a backdrop of green tussock grass and snowfields.
King Edward Point
~30
British Government Officer, Deputy Postmaster, scientists, and support staff from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
Christianity
English
Pound sterling (GBP), Falkland Islands pound (FKP)
+500
UTC–2
Type G
October–March
Grilled wild Patagonian toothfish, fish & chips, roast beef, Yorkshire pudding
Falkland Islands (~1,300 km west of SG), Argentina (~1,750 km west of SG), South Orkney Islands (~800 km southwest of SSI), Antarctica (~1,550 km southwest of SG), Bouvet Island (~3,000 km east of SSI)
None. Ships provide satellite Wi-Fi for messaging and e-mail.
Obtain a visa for the departure country. Your cruise operator will obtain the South Georgia Travel Permit. Contact us for more information.
Polar destinations have no pre-designed packages. Please get in touch with us or build your own itinerary.
Let’s do it! Perhaps you already know what you want to see and do, perhaps you don’t. Either way, we’ll create the best South Georgia tour for you.
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The southern tip of the island has the vertical rock walls of Drygalski Fjord. This deep-water marine trench is bordered by cliffs that descend into waters hundreds of metres deep. Expedition vessels can navigate to the faces of advancing tidewater glaciers that continuously fracture, dropping slabs of blue ice directly into the sub-Antarctic surf.
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David Smyth
Director, Forward Travel
Sample only
Best Time to Travel: October–March
South Georgia is an isolated, crescent-shaped sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly 1,300 kilometres southeast of the Falkland Islands. Administered as a British Overseas Territory, it has no permanent human population and is over 50% permanently covered by massive glacial ice fields. Bypassed entirely by commercial transport infrastructure, the island is heavily protected as a marine sanctuary, sustaining the densest and most monumental concentration of seabirds and marine mammals on Earth.
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Emma & James Wilson
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September 2024