Lonely Planet Antarctica

• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781787011496

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Antarctica is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get up close and personal with the local penguin populations, cruise the picture-perfect Lemaire Channel, or pay a visit to Ernest Shackleton's eerily preserved hut, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Antarctica and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Antarctica Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, landscapes, wildlife, environment Over 24 maps Covers the South Pole, the Antarctic Peninsula, Ross Ice Shelf, Lemaire Channel, Deception Island, Cuverville Island, Cape Royds, Cape Denison, Cape Evans, Port Lockroy, Paradise Harbor, and more About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home.TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Southern Ocean

Southern Ocean Highlights

Ushuaia

Cape Horn

Islas Diego Ramirez

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

Stanley

East Falkland

West Falkland

Antarctic Convergence

South Georgia

South Orkney Islands

Laurie Island

Signy Island

South Shetland Islands

Elephant Island

King George Island

Penguin Island

Nelson Island

Greenwich Island

Half Moon Island

Livingston Island

Deception Island

Other Peri-Antarctic Islands

Heard & McDonald Islands

Macquarie Island

New Zealand's Sub-Antarctic Islands

Southern Ocean

Why Go?

The southern parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans form the fifth ocean of the world, the Southern Ocean. Its wild waters surround Antarctica and isolate it geographically, biologically and climatically from the rest of the world. Scattered around these waters are the islands that early explorers and sealers encountered before they actually found Terra Australis Incognita.

Visit the rocky but fecund shores of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, with abundant wildlife and history. Most cruises from South America call in at the South Shetland Islands or the South Orkney Islands, where people set up their first Antarctic outposts. Travelers from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa approach the continent from the Ross Sea side, with seabird-rich Heard and Macquarie Islands.

Sailing these waters and sighting these windswept isles re-creates the journeys of early adventurers.

Top Resources

ASouth Georgia & South Sandwich official site (www.gov.gs) Loads of info, including permit requirements.

ASouth Georgia Heritage Trust (www.sght.org) History and wildlife-conservation group.

AFalkland Islands (www.falklandislands.com) Central source on the island group.

AA Visitor’s Guide to the Falkland Islands (www.falklandsconservation.com) Written by native Falklander Debbie Summers, with photos, excellent maps and interesting facts.

AAntarctic Equipment (www.antarcticequipment.com.ar) Last-minute equipment in Ushuaia.

AUshuaia Tourist Office (www.turismoushuaia.com)

AAntarctic Tourist Information (www.tierradelfuego.org.ar/antartida) Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego website includes Antarctic information.

Best Places to Spot Wildlife

A North coast of South Georgia

A Livingston Island

A West Falkland

A Deception Island

Best Historical Sights

AGrytviken Visit South Georgia's turn-of-the-20th-century whaling station.

AFalkland Islands Museum Learn about shipwrecks and life on these remote islands.

AMuseo Marítimo & Museo del Presidio Take in maritime history at Ushuaia's museums.

AOrcadas Station See the oldest continuously operating Antarctic research station on Laurie Island in the South Orkneys.

Southern Ocean Highlights

1 Baily Head Braving the surging swells to reach Deception Island’s giant chinstrap rookery.

2 Prion Island Viewing rare nesting albatrosses.

3 Grytviken Ringing the bells at the evocative old Whalers' Church.

4 St Andrews Bay Observing hundreds of thousands of king penguins.

5 Antarctic Convergence Crossing the oceanographic boundary separating Antarctica from the rest of the world.

6 Sea Lion Island Seeing all five of the Falklands’ penguin species.

7 Stanley Sharing a drink with locals or visiting the Falkland Islands Museum.

8 Elephant Island Zodiac cruising the spot where members of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition survived for more than four months.

9 King George Island Chatting with winterovers at one of eight countries’ Antarctic stations.

a Macquarie Island Visiting four million penguins, including about 850,000 breeding pairs of royals.

Ushuaia

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Nearly 90% of all Antarctic tourists depart from Ushuaia in Argentina, thanks to the city’s fortunate location almost directly across the 100km-wide Drake Passage from the Antarctic Peninsula.

A busy port and adventure hub, Ushuaia is a sliver of steep streets and jumbled buildings below the snowcapped Martial Range.

During the pa...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Welcome to Antarctica
• Antarctica's Top 15
• Need to Know
• If You Like
• Itineraries
• Planning Your Adventure
• Regions at a Glance
• Southern Ocean
• Antarctic Peninsula
• Ross Sea
• East Antarctica & the South Pole
• Antarctic Wildlife Guide
• Understand Antarctica
• Antarctica in Color
• Antarctica Today
• History
• Environment
• Wildlife
• Antarctic Science
• Directory AZ
• Transportation
• Glossary
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers