Where can you see the Northern Giant Petrel?
Some of the best places to see the Northern Giant Petrel in the wild include Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Paulet Island (Antarctica) and Fortuna Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) — among 13 wildlife hotspots across South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica, Chile, Falkland Islands and Argentina. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Archipiélago Juan Fernández National Park
San Juan Bautista, Chile
+24 birds+1 mammals
Where the Pacific’s cold currents collide with volcanic peaks, an archipelago of windswept islands rises like a natural fortress 670 […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBrown 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 LANDSCAPECabo de Hornos National Park
Cape Horn, Chile
+34 birds+1 mammals
Where granite peaks plunge into the Southern Ocean and beech forests cling to windswept slopes, one of Earth’s most remote […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCooper 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 LANDSCAPEElsehul 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 & ARCHIPELAGOMonte León National Park
Argentina
+53 birds+6 mammals
Where the Patagonian steppe meets the Atlantic, windswept plateaus descend abruptly to a dramatic coastline carved by relentless tidal forces […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMurrell 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 […]
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