During the six expedition days on the Antarctica cruise, we made 8 different landings. Most of the stops provided a chance to get close up to different kinds of penguins. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bFJeX7rEE8 We also stopped at Arctowski, a polar research base …
From Svalbard, I made my way to Ushuaia, the world’s southernmost city, stopping along the way in Oslo, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Most of the tourist cruises to Antarctica leave from Ushuaia, which is much closer to Antarctica than Australia …
From Tromso, I flew to Longyearbyen, the main settlement on Spitzbergen, the main island in the Svalbard archipelago in the north of Norway. The furthest north I’ve ever been. (It is so far north that if you want to see …