Where can you see the Leopard Seal?
Some of the best places to see the Leopard Seal in the wild include Neko Harbour (Antarctica), Wilhelmina Bay (Antarctica) and Cuverville Island (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.
Brown 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 LANDSCAPECooper 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 & ARCHIPELAGODanco Island
Danco Island, Antarctica
+14 birds+5 mammals
Dramatic black rock pierces the Antarctic Peninsula’s icy waters, crowned with permanent snow and ringed by calving glaciers that thunder […]
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 & ARCHIPELAGOFortuna 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 LANDSCAPELemaire 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 LANDSCAPEParadise Bay
Brown Station, Antarctica
+14 birds+5 mammals
Where granite peaks plunge into the Bismarck Strait, a sheltered cove reveals one of Antarctica’s most dramatic ecosystems. Paradise Bay’s […]
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