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D 1 – Ushuaia, Argentina (December 03) ~ Drake Passage (December 04/05) 2 – Astrolabe Island L (December 05 PM) 3 – Half Moon Island L (December 06 AM) 4 – Whalers Bay L (December 06 PM) 5 – Charlotte Bay ZC (December 07 AM) 6 – Enterprise Island ZC (December 07 PM) 7 – Damoy Point L (December 08) 8 – Lemaire Channel SC (December 08 AM) 9 – Petermann Island ZC (December 08 PM) 10 – Neko Harbour L (December 09 AM) 11 – Flandres Bay (December 09 PM) 12 – Mikkelsen Harbour L (December 10 AM) 13 – Cierva Cove ZC (December 10 PM) 14 – Orne Harbour ZC (December 11 AM) ~ Drake Passage (December 12/13)
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Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica in Depth Ushuaia to Ushuaia, Argentina December 2 – December 14, 2023 Captain Radomir Novosel Discovery Leader Helena Schofield Total Nautical Miles = 1,951 Southernmost Latitude Reached = 65°10.7’ S
Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist COMMON NAME BIRDS Penguins Southern Rockhopper Penguin Adélie Penguin Chinstrap Penguin Emperor Penguin Gentoo Penguin King Penguin Macaroni Penguin Magellanic Penguin Unidentified Penguin Sea Birds Black-browed Albatross (sub adult) Grey-headed Albatross Light-mantled Albatross Northern Royal Albatross Sooty Albatross Southern Royal Albatross Wandering Albatross Southern Fulmar Brown-hooded Gull Dolphin Gull Kelp Gull Antarctic Petrel Atlantic Petrel Black-bellied Storm-petrel Blue Petrel Cape Petrel Common Diving-petrel Northern Giant Petrel Snow Petrel South Georgia Diving-petrel Southern Giant Petrel White-chinned Petrel Wilson’s Storm Petrel Southern Pintail Southern Giant Petrel (white morph) Slender-billed Prion Fairy Prion
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Eudyptes chrysocome Pygoscelis adeliae Pygoscelis antarcticus Aptenodytes forsteri Pygoscelis papua Aptenodytes patagonicus Eudyptes chrysolophus Spheniscus magellanicus
Thalassarche melanophris Thalassarche chrysostoma Phoebetria palpebrata Diomedea sanfordi Phoebetria fusca Diomedea epomophora Diomedea exulans Fulmarus glacialoides Larus maculipennis Larus scoresbii Larus dominicanus Thalassoica antarctica Pterodroma incerta Fregetta tropica Halobaena caerulea Daption capense Pelecanoides urinatrix Macronectes halli Pagodroma nivea Pelecanoides georgicus Macronectes giganteus Procellaria aequinoctialis Oceanites oceanicus Anas eatoni Pachyptila belcheri Pachyptila turtur
Antarctica in Depth | December 2 – December 14, 2023 TOTAL DAYS SPOTTED
0 3 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 0 7 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 0
COMMON NAME BIRDS continued Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Brown Skua Chilean Skua South Polar Skua Arctic Tern Antarctic Tern South American Tern Shorebirds Magellanic Oystercatcher Blackish Oystercatcher Southern Caracara Striated Caracara Antarctic Cormorant Imperial Cormorant/Blue-eyed Shag King Cormorant Magellanic Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Blue-eyed Shag Rock Shag South Georgian Shag Snowy Sheathbill Unidentified shag/cormorant PINNIPEDS Antarctic Fur Seal Crabeater Seal Leopard Seal South American Fur Seal South American Sea Lion Southern Elephant Seal Weddell Seal Unidentified Seal
SCIENTIFIC NAME
TOTAL DAYS SPOTTED
Ardenna gravis Ardenna grisea Catharacta antarctica Catharacta chilensis Catharacta maccormicki Sterna paradisaea Sterna vittata Sterna hirundinacea
0 0 5 1 1 1 4 0
Haematopus leucopodus Haematopus ater
0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0
Phalcoboenus australis Leucocarbo atriceps Leucocarbo atriceps Leucocarbo atriceps Leucocarbo magellanicus Leucocarbo magellanicus Leucocarbo magellanicus Leucocarbo magellanicus Chionis albus
Arctocephalus gazella Lobodon carcinophaga Hydrurga leptonyx Arctocephalus australis ssp. australis Otaria byronia Mirounga leonina Leptonychotes weddellii
0 5 1 0 0 1 4 0
Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist COMMON NAME CETACEANS Commerson's Dolphin Dusky Dolphin Hourglass Dolphin Peale's Dolphin Southern Right Whale Killer Whale B1 Spectacled Porpoise Arnoux's Beaked Whale Cuvier’s Beaked Whale Long-finned Pilot Whale Southern Bottlenose Whale Sperm Whale Strap-toothed Whale Unidentified toothed wale Antarctic Minke Whale Blue Whale Common Minke Whale Fin Whale Humpback Whale Sei Whale Southern Right Whale Unidentified baleen whale Unidentified Beaked whale INVERTEBRATES Anenome Antarctic Sun Starfish Bottom-dwelling Fish Briozoa Brittle Sea Stars Crinoid Ctenophore (Comb Jelly) Gastropods (Marseniopsis Mollis) Ice Fish Jelly Fish Isopod Krill
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Cephalorhynchus commersonii Lagenorhynchus obscurus Lagenorhynchus cruciger Lagenorhynchus australis Eubalaena australis Orcinus orca Phocoena dioptrica Berardius arnuxii Ziphius cavirostris Globicephala melas Hyperoodon planifrons Physeter macrocephalus Mesoplodon layardii Balaenoptera bonaerensis Balaenoptera musculus Balaenoptera acutorostrata Balaenoptera physalus Megaptera novaeangliae Balaenoptera borealis Eubalaena australis
Labidiaster annulatus
Antarctica in Depth | December 2 – December 14, 2023 TOTAL DAYS SPOTTED 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
COMMON NAME INVERTEBRATES continued Limpet Octopus Ophiuridae (Star Fish) Sea Cucumber Sea Rod (Distaplia Cylindrica) Sea Spider Sea Squirt (Ascidian) Starfish Volcanic Sponge Yellow Sponge Giant Antarctic Isopod Feather Star Sea Urchins Laevilacunaria Antarctica
TOTAL SPECIES SEEN
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Family Pycnogonidae
TOTAL DAYS SPOTTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
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