Itinerary
- Days 1 - 3
Ushuaia to South Georgia
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Board MS Ortelius cruise ship
- Sail through Beagle Channel
- Cross Antarctic Convergence
- Observe seabirds including albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, prions and skuas
Landmarks Ushuaia Beagle Channel - Days 4 - 6
South Georgia
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Pass Shag Rocks
- Visit Prion Island (observe breeding albatrosses)
- Visit Fortuna Bay (follow Shackleton's route to Stromness)
- Visit Salisbury Plain (observe king penguin colonies and Antarctic fur seals)
- Visit St. Andrews Bay (observe king penguin colonies and Antarctic fur seals)
- Visit Gold Harbor (observe king penguin colonies and Antarctic fur seals)
- Visit Grytviken abandoned whaling station
- Visit South Georgia Museum
- Visit Ernest Shackleton grave
Landmarks Shag Rocks Prion Island Fortuna Bay Stromness Salisbury Plain St. Andrews Bay Gold Harbor Grytviken South Georgia Museum Ernest Shackleton grave 
- Days 7 - 8
South Georgia to South Sandwich Islands
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Sail toward South Sandwich Islands
- Observe seabirds (south polar skuas and snow petrels)
- Day 9
South Sandwich Islands
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Zodiac cruise through South Sandwich Islands (weather permitting)
- Observe marine wildlife (humpback whales, minke whales)
- Observe seabirds (brown skuas, chinstrap penguins, Adelie penguins, gray-headed albatross, black-browed albatross, wandering albatross)
Landmarks South Sandwich Islands - Days 10 - 12
South Sandwich Islands to Weddell Sea
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Sail toward Antarctic continent
- Approach Queen Maud Land
- Approach New Swabia
Landmarks Queen Maud Land New Swabia 
- Days 13 - 14
New Swabia, Queen Maud Land
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Explore New Swabia
Landmarks New Swabia - Days 15 - 23
Weddell Sea Expedition
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Sail deep into Weddell Sea
- Observe Weddell seals
- Observe crabeater seals
- Observe leopard seals
- Observe emperor penguins
- Observe humpback whales
- Observe minke whales
- Observe orcas
- Sightseeing flight over Brunt Ice Shelf
- Sightseeing flight along Luitpold Coast
- Zodiac cruise (weather permitting)
- Land on ice floe (weather permitting)
- View area where Shackleton's Endurance sank
- Observe emperor penguin colonies
- Visit James Ross Island (weather permitting)
Landmarks Weddell Sea Brunt Ice Shelf Luitpold Coast Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Antarctic Peninsula Larsen Ice Shelf Endurance wreck site Snow Hill Island Erebus and Terror Gulf James Ross Island - Day 24
Brown Bluff and Kinnes Cove
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Visit Brown Bluff
- Observe Adelie penguins at Brown Bluff
- Observe gentoo penguins at Brown Bluff
- Observe nesting petrels at Brown Bluff
- Visit Kinnes Cove
- View Madder Cliffs
- Observe gentoo penguins at Kinnes Cove
Landmarks Brown Bluff Antarctic Sound Kinnes Cove Madder Cliffs - Day 25
Elephant Island
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- View Elephant Island
- Zodiac cruise to Point Wild (weather permitting)
Landmarks Elephant Island Point Wild - Days 26 - 27
Drake Passage Crossing
- Meals
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack (Coffee and tea)
Included Activities
- Cross Drake Passage
- Observe seabirds during crossing
Landmarks Drake Passage - Day 28
Ushuaia Disembarkation
Included Activities
- Disembark MS Ortelius
Landmarks Ushuaia
