2 Ushuaia, Argentina
1 – Ushuaia, Argentina (December 14) ~ Drake Passage (December 15/16) 2 – Elephant Island SC (December 16) 3 – Kinnes Cove ZC (December 17) 4 – Brown Bluff L,CL (December 17) 5 – Vega Island L (December 18) 6 – Fournier Bay ZC (December 19) 7 – Damoy Point L (December 20) 8 – Flandres Bay ZC (December 20) 9 – Port Charcot L (December 21) 10 – Lemaire Channel SC (December 21) 11 – Pleneau Island ZC (December 21) 12 – Prospect Point / Fish Island ZC,L,CL (December 22) 13 – Holtedahl Bay ZC (December 22) 14 – Detaille Island L (December 23) 15 – Lallamand Fjord PP (December 23) 16 – Yalour Islands ZC (December 24) 17 – Winter Island ZC (December 24) 18 – Neko Harbor L,CL (December 25) 19 – Melchior Islands SC (December 25) ~ Drake Passage (December 26/27) ~ Ushuaia, Argentina (December 27)
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Antarctic Peninsula
SC = Ship Cruise ZC = Zodiac Cruise L = Landing CL = Continental Landing PP = Polar Plunge Antarctica & the Weddell Sea Ushuaia to Ushuaia, Argentina December 14 – December 28, 2023 Captain Erwan Le Rauzic Discovery Leader Gerard Baker Total Nautical Miles = 2460 Southernmost Latitude Reached = 66°57’ S
Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist
COMMON NAME BIRDS Albatross Black-browed Albatross Grey-headed Albatross Light-mantled Albatross Cormorants Antarctic Cormorant Imperial Cormorant Blue-eyed Shag Petrels Southern Fulmar Cape Petrel Snow Petrel Southern Giant Petrel Southern Giant Petrel (white morph) Wilson’s Storm Petrel Great Shearwater Gulls, Terns Kelp Gull Antarctic Tern Shorebirds Snowy Sheathbill Skuas Brown Skua South Polar Skua Penguins Adélie Penguin Chinstrap Penguin Gentoo Penguin Emperor Penguin Magellanic Penguin
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Antarctica & the Weddell Sea | December 14 – December 28, 2023
TOTAL DAYS SPOTTED
Thalassarche melanophris Thalassarche chrysostoma Phoebetria palpebrata
3 2 1
Leucocarbo atriceps Leucocarbo atriceps Leucocarbo magellanicus
3 6 6
Fulmarus glacialoides Daption capense Pagodroma nivea Macronectes giganteus Oceanites oceanicus Ardenna gravis
5 3 1 3 1 4 1
Larus dominicanus Sterna vittata
5 6
Chionis albus
5
Catharacta antarctica Catharacta maccormicki
7 3
Pygoscelis adeliae Pygoscelis antarcticus Pygoscelis papua Aptenodytes forsteri Spheniscus magellanicus
7 3 5 1 1
COMMON NAME MAMMALS Cetaceans Orca Antarctic Minke Whale Fin Whale Humpback Whale Pinipeds Crabeater Seal Leopard Seal Southern Elephant Seal Weddell Seal UNDERWATER Anemone Antarctic Sun Starfish Bottom-dwelling Fish Brittle Sea Stars Jelly Fish Yellow Sponge Giant Antarctic Isopods Feather Star Krill - Gigantic Sea Rod Sea Squirt (ascidian) Nematode Bryozoa
TOTAL SPECIES SEEN
SCIENTIFIC NAME
TOTAL DAYS SPOTTED
Orcinus orca Balaenoptera bonaerensis Balaenoptera physalus Megaptera novaeangliae
2 3 1 8
Lobodon carcinophaga Hydrurga leptonyx Mirounga leonina Leptonychotes weddellii
4 3 1 5
1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
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