Iceberg Alley, Antarctic Sound is the northeastern point of the Antarctic Peninsula. You can dock and visit Adelaide penguin colonies at Devil Island, Brown Bluff, or Paulet Island. If time and winter season permit, you can explore the Northern fringes of the Weddell Sea to search for emperor penguins that breed only during the winter on nearby Snow Hill Island. During the summer season, the emperor penguins are more difficult to see because their colonies have dispersed.
However, you may get lucky and see one resting on the ice if you dedicate the time to search. Another great sight to see that’s dependent on weather conditions is attempting to transit ‘The Gullet’. Sandwiched in between Adelaide Island and the Tyndall Mountains is this narrow passage offering exquisite mountain scenery on the east side of this wonderfully hidden channel.
The rarely visited passage way opens up to Marguerite Bay. This area was first visited by a French Polar explorer and only a few make the time and effort to come this far south to see this bay. With a full 24 hours of sunlight, explore rarely visited sites such as Bourgeois Fjord and Jenny Island which is the world’s southernmost elephant seal colony.