Where can you see the Adelie Penguin?
Some of the best places to see the Adelie Penguin in the wild include Neko Harbour (Antarctica), Paulet Island (Antarctica) and Wilhelmina Bay (Antarctica) — among 12 wildlife hotspots across Antarctica. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Brown Bluff
Brown Bluff, Antarctica
+18 birds+3 mammals
Where rust-colored volcanic peaks pierce the Antarctic Peninsula’s icy realm, a geologist’s dreamscape unfolds beneath towering cliffs of iron oxide […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPECuverville Island
Cuverville Island, Antarctica
+14 birds+7 mammals
Where black volcanic peaks jut from the Gerlache Strait, penguin colonies blanket the rocky shores in a cacophony of sound […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGODanco Island
Danco Island, Antarctica
+14 birds+5 mammals
Dramatic black rock pierces the Antarctic Peninsula’s icy waters, crowned with permanent snow and ringed by calving glaciers that thunder […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGODeception Island
Gabriel de Castilla Base, Antarctica
+16 birds+6 mammals
Steaming geothermal vents pierce a landscape of blackened volcanic sand and ice, where the earth’s raw power still trembles beneath […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOHalf Moon Island
Cámara Base, Antarctica
+16 birds+4 mammals
Jagged volcanic peaks rise from the cobalt waters of the South Shetland Islands, their slopes carpeted in moss and lichen […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOLemaire Channel
Orne Harbour, Antarctica
+17 birds+10 mammals
Where granite peaks plunge into steel-grey waters, the Lemaire Channel carves one of Antarctica’s most dramatic passages. This narrow strait, […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPENeko Harbour
Neko Harbour, Antarctica
+17 birds+10 mammals
Towering peaks of fractured ice rise abruptly from gunmetal waters, their faces scarred by millennia of glacial advance and retreat. […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEParadise Bay
Brown Station, Antarctica
+14 birds+5 mammals
Where granite peaks plunge into the Bismarck Strait, a sheltered cove reveals one of Antarctica’s most dramatic ecosystems. Paradise Bay’s […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEPaulet Island
Paulet Island, Antarctica
+16 birds+3 mammals
Windswept ice and weathered rock converge at this remote Antarctic outcrop, where jagged peaks pierce through perpetual pack ice and […]
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