
Cruises visiting Expedition to Charcot Island
When he discovered this island surrounded by sea ice in 1910 from aboard the Pourquoi Pas ? as he mapped Alexander Island, Jean-Baptiste Charcot had not be able to get less than 40 miles away from it. Situated in a zone that experiences frequent low-pressure systems and regular cloud cover, the island remains in many ways an enigma. It is entirely covered in ice and sheer cliffs, with the exception of the rocky outcrops extending over a dozen kilometres in the far north-west. The ice in the narrowest part of Wilkins Sound has been cracking in recent times, thus officially detaching this island from its neighbour, Alexander Island, lying 50 km away. Very few people have landed on this largely untouched island, whose waters attract numerous seabirds, such as petrels, Antarctic terns and skuas.


Beyond the Antarctic Circle – In the Wake of Jean-Baptiste Charcot
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Ushuaia
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Ushuaia
14 nightsaboard the shipLE COMMANDANT CHARCOT
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Ushuaia
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Hobart, Tasmania
29 nightsaboard the shipLE COMMANDANT CHARCOT
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57,030 € /person*
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