My husband and I are seasoned travelers and have been on a mission to visit all seven continents. In early 2023, we still had ...

Over the weekend, the Norwegian Star, which is currently in the Drake Passage, informed passengers ... on February 18 would no longer be reaching Antarctica, shortening the cruise line season.

On a bright, blue day in Antarctica, our zodiac boat bobs across the Southern Ocean, the other boats in our party strung ...

You'll also have two days en route to Antarctica and two days on the return trip on the famed Drake Passage – also known as the "Drake Lake" (on smooth days) or the "Drake Shake" (when the seas ...

Vessels cross the notorious Drake Passage, often calling at some remote islands on the way to the Antarctic Peninsula. Various categories of ship make the journey to Antarctica, but most are ...

and sailed 625 miles across 30-foot swells in the Drake Passage until we reached the Antarctic Peninsula. By the time we reached the South Shetland Islands, we were more than 9,000 miles away from ...

Despite the violent Drake Passage, the smaller boat proved to ... but that's the reality of Antarctica Having done a lot of research in advance, I knew my Antarctica trip was not going to be ...

Our Antarctic cruise began in Ushuaia ... This is most evident on the Drake Passage, a 600-mile stretch between South America's tip and the South Shetland Islands. This is where the Atlantic ...

Antarctica. For the seasoned traveler, it's often the pinnacle of their journeys, the final continent left to conquer. For the newly intrepid, it might be their first big expedition. It doesn't ...

The company says that for guests with limited time, the Antarctica Bridge fly-cruise program provides the option to skip sailing the Drake Passage and fly in comfort straight to Antarctica to ...

In order to get to Antarctica by boat, however, we knew we'd have to cross the dreaded Drake Passage. I spent a lot of time on boats growing up and assumed I wouldn't be affected by the Passage ...