Where can you see the Grey-headed Albatross?
Some of the best places to see the Grey-headed Albatross in the wild include Lemaire Channel (Antarctica), Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) and Paradise Bay (Antarctica) — among 17 wildlife hotspots across Antarctica, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Falkland Islands and Chile. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Brown Bluff
Brown Bluff, Antarctica
+23 birds+9 mammals
Where rust-colored volcanic peaks pierce the Antarctic Peninsula's icy realm, a geologist's dreamscape unfolds beneath towering cliffs of iron oxide and ancient lava. Brown Bluff rises…
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPECabo de Hornos National Park
Cape Horn, Chile
+88 birds+9 mammals
Where the Andes plunge into the Southern Ocean and the Drake Passage churns between two continents, Cabo de Hornos National Park sprawls across one of Earth's…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCooper Bay
Cooper Bay, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+28 birds+5 mammals
Where black-sand beaches meet towering cliffs striped with cascading meltwater, one of the Southern Ocean's most dramatic amphitheaters reveals itself. Cooper Bay cuts a deep indent…
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPECuverville Island
Cuverville Island, Antarctica
+19 birds+10 mammals
Granite peaks and sculpted ice define this windswept archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula, where steep rocky shores plunge into waters thick with drifting brash ice. Cuverville…
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGODeception Island
Gabriel de Castilla Base, Antarctica
+26 birds+10 mammals
Steaming geothermal vents pierce a landscape of blackened volcanic sand and ice, where the earth's raw power still trembles beneath your feet. This horseshoe-shaped caldera, flooded…
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOElsehul Bay
Bird Island Station, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+33 birds+4 mammals
Granite peaks rise sheer from the Southern Ocean, their weathered faces streaked with cascading meltwater and cloaked in tussock grass that bends beneath relentless winds. This…
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEFortuna Bay
Stromness, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
+37 birds+5 mammals
Where tussock grasslands sweep down to black-sand beaches and elephant seals haul out in thunderous colonies, the raw sub-Antarctic landscape reveals itself in its most dramatic…
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEHalf Moon Island
Cámara Base, Antarctica
+25 birds+8 mammals
Jagged volcanic peaks rise from the cobalt waters of the South Shetland Islands, their slopes carpeted in moss and lichen where hardy vegetation clings to windswept…
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOKidney Island
Stanley, Falkland Islands
+47 birds
Wind-scoured tussock grassland sweeps across this remote South Atlantic outcrop, where peaty soils and exposed rock formations create a landscape as austere as it is vital.…
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