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Antarctic 2024/2025

Explore with the Leader of Heli Adventures in Antarctica

Get ready for our most helicopter-focused Antarctic season ever! We’ve increased the opportunities for guests to experience the Antarctic from the air in Ultramarine’s two twin-engine H145 helicopters. Our exciting new season enables guests to enjoy heli-landing and flightseeing on multiple Antarctic voyages. Rest assured, all 30 departures in our Antarctic 2024/2025 season—to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Island, the Falkland Islands and Patagonia—feature a large roster of land- and sea-based options to explore the Antarctic! 

Highlights of Antarctic 2024/2025

  • Guests get up to 25% off select voyages 
  • An additional 10% off when paying in full at time of booking 
  • US $1,000 flight credit off the top of the trip cost 
  • $250 shipboard credit on all departures 
  • The most helicopter adventures than ever before offered in the Antarctic! 

Are you ready to choose your expedition of a lifetime for 2024?

Penguins, Glaciers and Icebergs

Antarctic Explorer: Discovering the 7th Continent

If this is your first visit, our classic Antarctic Explorer voyage gives you the best of the stunning Antarctic Peninsula in 11 days.

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Antarctic Express: Crossing the Circle

Antarctic Express: Crossing the Circle

Check off a travel milestone by crossing the Antarctic Circle. Maximize your adventure by skipping the ocean transit and flying over the Drake Passage by charter plane.

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Antarctic Express: Fly the Drake

Antarctic Express: Fly the Drake

Answer the call of Antarctica by flying over the notorious Drake Passage by charter plane to land at King George Island before exploring the Antarctic Peninsula by ship.

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Crossing the Circle: Southern Expedition

Crossing the Circle: Southern Expedition

Setting foot on the 7th Continent is a polar achievement relatively few people experience in their lifetime. Even more rare is the incomparable milestone that’s achieved when a traveler crosses the iconic Antarctic Circle.

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Penguins in Antarctica

Epic Antarctica: Crossing the Circle via Falklands and South Georgia

Our Epic Antarctica voyage is called so for a reason—it includes all of the major Antarctic highlights you can imagine. From the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to South Georgia to the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Essential Patagonia: Chilean Fjords and Torres del Paine

Essential Patagonia: Chilean Fjords and Torres del Paine

Retrace Charles Darwin’s epic voyage to the ‘edge of the world’ on our Essential Patagonia: Chilean Fjords and Torres del Paine expedition, a comprehensive journey into Chile’s spectacular network of fjords and channels.

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South Georgia landscape

Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica: Explorers and Kings

The Falklands (Malvinas), South Georgia & Antarctica itinerary is the fastest way to get to the rarely visited Falkland Islands and South Georgia before stepping foot on the 7th Continent.

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South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula: Penguin Safari

South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula: Penguin Safari

As we set sail, photograph massive albatross and beautiful pintado petrels as they swoop and soar around the ship, guiding us toward South Georgia. Beaches teeming with king penguins and elephant seals greet us on this fabled island, where we’ll pay our respects to famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

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