Where can you see the Macaroni Penguin?
Some of the best places to see the Macaroni Penguin in the wild include Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Port Stephens (Falkland Islands) and Murrell Farm (Falkland Islands) — among 15 wildlife hotspots across South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Falkland Islands, Antarctica and Chile. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Cabo 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 LANDSCAPEDeception 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.…
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGOMurrell Farm
falskland islands, Falkland Islands
+54 birds
Rolling grasslands sweep across windswept plateaux where the South Atlantic exerts its relentless influence on the vegetation, sculpting tussock grassland into a tapestry of browns and…
VIEW NATURE RESERVEPort Stephens
Port Stephens, Falkland Islands
+29 birds
Windswept moorlands sweep down to pristine beaches where kelp forests fringe the turquoise shallows, their giant fronds swaying in the southern current. Port Stephens, cradled on…
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