Enjoy groups of smiling Weddell seals sunbathing in Antarctica. Weddel seals live in the waters of McMurdo Sound about 800 miles away from the South Pole and are only seals to represent the Antarctica wildlife so far south.
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
~ Carved on the cross on Observation Hill to memorialize Scott's polar expedition
"I thought, dear, that you would rather have a live ass than a dead lion."
~ Sir Ernest Shackleton to his wife Emily, after deciding to turn back 97 miles from the South Pole
Quark Expeditions
For an Antarctica travel with the most adventure, good food and basic but warm accommodation.
Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Voyage)
From June 2008 the new MS Fram (built 2007) replaces the 1997 built Nordnorge.