Where can you see the Antarctic Tern?
Some of the best places to see the Antarctic Tern in the wild include Neko Harbour (Antarctica), Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) and Paulet Island (Antarctica) — among 19 wildlife hotspots across Antarctica, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Falkland Islands. 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 LANDSCAPECooper Bay
Cooper Bay, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+27 birds+9 mammals
Where black-sand beaches meet towering cliffs striped with cascading meltwater, one of the Southern Ocean’s most dramatic amphitheaters reveals itself. […]
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 & ARCHIPELAGOElsehul Bay
Bird Island Station, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+29 birds+4 mammals
Granite peaks rise sheer from the Southern Ocean, their weathered faces streaked with cascading meltwater and cloaked in tussock grass […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEFortuna Bay
Stromness, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+26 birds+9 mammals
Where tussock grasslands sweep down to black-sand beaches and elephant seals haul out in thunderous colonies, the raw sub-Antarctic landscape […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEHalf 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, […]
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