Two abandoned and decaying whaling ships beached at the whaling station in Grytviken, South Georgia as seen on December 23rd, 2024.
Rusted tanks and machinery in the now-abandoned whaling station in Grytviken, South Georgia as seen on December 23rd, 2024.
I was sorting photos to upload to Alamy this weekend and came back to the images from Grytviken, South Georgia and its abandoned whaling station. This...
Woohoo! It’s World Penguin Day and this Adélie certainly seems excited about it. Adélie’s (Pygoscelis adeliae) only live on and in the immediate...
This lone Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) jumped onto a beached iceberg and watched us intently as we motored past in a zodiac at Petermann Island, Antarctica...
We spotted this group of Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on New Island in the Falklands on December 19th, 2024 as they were making their way down a penguin...
Staying with penguins, here’s another image from my favourite location of our December expedition. This was taken at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia,...
I got back onto penguin images again yesterday so here’s another. We spent an hour or so on December 19th last year fascinated by groups of Gentoo...
All this talk of tariffs levied on uninhabited Antarctic islands is obviously causing stress to this poor King Penguin spotted at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia...
A Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) seen at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia on December 24th, 2024. These birds live on the periphery of many penguin...
An Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittata georgiae) adult and chick seen at Godthul on South Georgia, December 24th, 2024.
A Ruddy-Headed Goose (Chloephaga rubidiceps) seen New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024.
This rather gruesome looking Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) was taking a bath at Cooper Bay, South Georgia where it and a number of other...
A Striated Caracara or Forster’s Caracara (Phalcoboenus australis) seen on New Island in the Falkland Islands on December 19th, 2024.
We saw a lot of penguins during our Antarctic adventure but there were also plenty of non-penguin birds to spot so I’ll run a short series of those...
Continuing the iceberg theme, here’s another spectacular berg seen as we exited Cooper Bay in South Georgia on Christmas Day last year. This also...
This was the first large iceberg we saw on the trip during our passage between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on December 22nd, 2024. A76b is the second...
I’m going to stick with the icebergs of Cooper Bay, South Georgia for a few more days since I have so many shots taken there that I really enjoy....
I’m heading back south today with this view of one of the many icebergs grounded in Cooper Bay, South Georgia. The captain expertly navigated M/V Hondius...
I’ve been posting images from my amazing trip to Antarctica for almost two months now but the time has come to say goodbye with this image of a zodiac...
