Where can you see the White-chinned Petrel?
Some of the best places to see the White-chinned Petrel in the wild include Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Fortuna Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) and Archipiélago Juan Fernández National Park (Chile) — among 13 wildlife hotspots across South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Chile, Falkland Islands, Namibia and Australia. 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 PARKCabo 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 LANDSCAPEDorob National Park
Henties Bay, Namibia
+118 birds+30 mammals
Where the Skeleton Coast’s haunting dunes surrender to gravel plains and rocky outcrops, an extraordinary expanse of Namibian wilderness unfolds […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKElsehul 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 LANDSCAPEFitzgerald River National Park
Fitzgerald River National Park, Australia
+98 birds+6 mammals
Where granite peaks rise above windswept heathlands and pristine river systems carve through untamed wilderness, one of Australia’s most biodiverse […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKFortuna 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 LANDSCAPEMurrell 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 […]
VIEW NATURE RESERVEPrion 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. […]
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