Ushuaia, Argentina
1 – Ushuaia, Argentina (December 6) ~ First Ice Berg 58° 31.3’S 063° 27.8’W (December 7) ~ Antarctic Sound (December 8) 2 – Snow Hill Island HL,ZC (December 9/10) 3 – Paulet Island L,H (December 11) 4 – Duse Bay H (December 11) 5 – A232A Iceberg ZC,H (December 12) 6 – Halfmoon Island L,K (December 13) 7 – Whalers Bay L (December 13) 8 – Wilhelmina Bay ZC,K,SUP (December 14) 9 – Neko Harbour L,K,SUP (December 14) 10 – Flandres Bay ZC,K,SUP (December 15) 11 – Lemaire Channel SC (December 15) 12 – Pleneau Island L,K,SUP (December 15) 13 – Neumeyer Channel SC (December 15) 14 – Fournier Bay ZC,K,SUP,H (December 16) 15 – Dallmann Bay PP (December 16) ~ Drake Passage (December 17/18) ~ Ushuaia, Argentina (December 19) 14
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Antarctica & the Weddell Sea Ushuaia to Ushuaia, Argentina December 6 – December 19, 2023 Captain Torry Sakkaraissen Discovery Leader Daniel Johnston Total Nautical Miles = 2,505.60 Southernmost Latitude Reached = 65°07.3’ S, 064°02.0’ W
Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist COMMON NAME BIRDS Penguins Adélie Penguin Chinstrap Penguin Gentoo Penguin Magellanic Penguin Emperor Penguin Albatross Wandering Albatross Southern Royal Albatross Northern Royal Albatross Light-mantled Albatross Grey-headed Albatross Black-browed Albatross Petrels Southern Giant Petrel Northern Giant Petrel Southern Fulmar Cape Petrel Antarctic Petrel Snow Petrel White-chinned Petrel Black-bellied Storm Wilsons Storm Petrel Gulls and Terns Kelp Gull Brown-hooded Gull Dolphin Gull Antarctic Tern South American Tern Shearwaters and Prions Sooty Shearwater Antarctic Prion Slender-billed Prion Blue Petrel Common diving-petrel Cormorants Antarctic Shag
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Antarctica & the Weddell Sea | December 6 – December 19, 2023
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Macronectes giganteus Macronectes halli Fulmarus glacialoides Daption capense Thalassoica antarctica Pagodroma nivea Procellaria aequinoctialis Fregetta tropica Oceanites oceanicus Larus dominicanus Chroicocephalus maculipennis Leucophaeus scoresbii Sterna vittata gaini Sterna hirundinacea
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Ardenna grisea Pachyptila desolata Pachyptila belcheri Halobaena caerulea Pelecanoides urinatrix Leucocarbo bransfieldensis
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Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist COMMON NAME
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BIRDS continued Skuas and Sheathbill Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki Chilean Skua Stercorarius chilensis Snowy (White-faced) Sheathbill MAMMALS Pinnipeds Weddell Seal Crabeater Seal Leopard Seal Antarctic Fur Seal Southern Elephant Seal South American Sea lion Cetaceans Southern Right Whale Blue Whale Humpback Whale Antarctic Minke Whale Fin Whale Killer Whale Dusky Dolphin Peale's Dolphin
Antarctica & the Weddell Sea | December 6 – December 19, 2023
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Leptonychotes weddellii Lobodon carcinophaga Hydrurga leptonyx Arctocephalus gazella Mirounga leonina Otaria flavescens Eubalaena australis Balaenoptera musculus Megaptera novaengliae Balaenoptera bonaerensis Balaenoptera physalus Orcinus orca Lagernorhynchus obscurus Lagernorhynchus australis
Additional Amazing Wildlife Sightings Presumed Beaked Whales (species ID unknown) Possible Sperm Whale (spotted by the captain near A23a) Spotted by a guest on the A23a day and ID features match
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