Where can you see the Black-bellied Storm Petrel?
Some of the best places to see the Black-bellied Storm Petrel in the wild include Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Fortuna Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) and Deception Island (Antarctica) — among 7 wildlife hotspots across South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Antarctica. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Cooper 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. […]
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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 LANDSCAPEPrion Island
Prince Olav Harbour, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+25 birds
Windswept tussock grasslands rise sharply from boulder-strewn beaches where the Southern Ocean hurls its grey swells against black volcanic rock. […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOSalisbury Plain
South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+26 birds+3 mammals
Where tussock grasses bow to relentless Antarctic winds and glacial meltwater carves braided channels through obsidian volcanic soil, one of […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPESt. Andrews Bay
South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+28 birds+11 mammals
Where windswept tundra dissolves into obsidian beaches, one of the planet’s most extraordinary wildlife theaters unfolds across St. Andrews Bay. […]
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