Where can you see the Antarctic Fur Seal?
Some of the best places to see the Antarctic Fur Seal in the wild include Neko Harbour (Antarctica), Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) and Wilhelmina Bay (Antarctica) — among 13 wildlife hotspots across Antarctica and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. 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. […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPECuverville Island
Cuverville Island, Antarctica
+14 birds+7 mammals
Where black volcanic peaks jut from the Gerlache Strait, penguin colonies blanket the rocky shores in a cacophony of sound […]
VIEW ISLAND & ARCHIPELAGODeception Island
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 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 & ARCHIPELAGOLemaire Channel
Orne Harbour, Antarctica
+17 birds+10 mammals
Where granite peaks plunge into steel-grey waters, the Lemaire Channel carves one of Antarctica’s most dramatic passages. This narrow strait, […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPENeko Harbour
Neko Harbour, Antarctica
+17 birds+10 mammals
Towering peaks of fractured ice rise abruptly from gunmetal waters, their faces scarred by millennia of glacial advance and retreat. […]
VIEW PROTECTED LANDSCAPEPetermann Island
Petermann Island, Antarctica
+14 birds+7 mammals
Icebound cliffs rise dramatically from the Bellingshausen Sea, their weathered faces sculpted by millennia of Antarctic wind and tide. This […]
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