Where can you see the Antarctic Fur Seal?
Some of the best places to see the Antarctic Fur Seal in the wild include Lemaire Channel (Antarctica), Elsehul Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) and Neko Harbour (Antarctica) — among 19 wildlife hotspots across Antarctica, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and South Africa. 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 LANDSCAPECooper 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 & ARCHIPELAGODanco Island
Danco Island, Antarctica
+17 birds+10 mammals
Dramatic black rock pierces the Antarctic Peninsula's icy waters, crowned with permanent snow and ringed by calving glaciers that thunder into the sea. This volcanic outcrop…
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 LANDSCAPEGarden Route National Park
George, South Africa
+353 birds+54 mammals
Sweeping across the Western Cape's coastal and mountainous terrain, this sprawling national park encompasses over five thousand square kilometers of extraordinarily diverse landscape—from coastal limestone cliffs…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHalf 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 & ARCHIPELAGO