06 Dec 2025 - 22 Dec 2025 (17 days)
USD15,250 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Expedition Leader
Pricing notes : *Special prices vary depending on when an enquiry is made, and the spaces available at time of booking.* **A Rockjumper leader will not accompany the expedition unless a minimum number of participants are signed up through Rockjumper. In the case that a Rockjumper leader is not on board, the professional expedition staff will take care of all participants signed up through Rockjumper.**
Tour price (Per person): USD15,250 * GBP12,036 * EUR14,562 * ZAR271,329
06 Dec 2026 - 22 Dec 2026 (17 days)
USD15,900 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Expedition Leader
Pricing notes : Prices & dates estimated and are expected to change* *Special prices vary depending on when an enquiry is made, and the spaces available at time of booking.* **A Rockjumper leader will not accompany the expedition unless a minimum number of participants are signed up through Rockjumper. In the case that a Rockjumper leader is not on board, the professional expedition staff will take care of all participants signed up through Rockjumper.**
Tour price (Per person): USD15,900 * GBP12,549 * EUR15,182 * ZAR282,893
Listen to the names: Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell, Macquarie and Chatham Islands. They are music to the ears of ‘Birders'. Apart from the Chathams, these islands are probably more isolated now than they were when they were discovered in the late 1700s and early 1800s and were regularly visited by sealers, whalers and government steamers searching for castaway sailors. It is relatively simple to get to the Chatham Islands, but opportunities to visit the others are rare.
The islands occupy the tempestuous latitudes of the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties, but they are also known as the Albatross Latitudes and with good reason. Ten of the world's albatross species breed in the region; five of them nowhere else but here! In fact, this zone where the air is never still hosts the most diverse collection of seabirds in the world. More than 40 species breed here - that is at least 11 per cent of the entire world's seabird population. Except for the Chathams, the islands are all designated UNESCO World Heritage sites and are afforded the highest conservation status and protection by the Australian and New Zealand governments, so passage to their shores is not granted lightly. There are also islands that we visit within the Chatham Islands' Archipelago with similar status and protection.
This expedition has huge appeal to pelagic enthusiasts, penguin fanatics and those interested in island endemics. Though you don't have to be a keen birder to enjoy this voyage. People interested in islands and island ecology, botany, geology and an increasing number of photographers have enjoyed this trip immensely, as have those interested in the history of Southern Ocean discovery and exploration.
This is one of our ‘signature expeditions' which has operated annually for more than 20 years, so you will benefit from the knowledge and expertise gained over that time.
**A Rockjumper leader will not accompany the expedition unless a minimum number of participants are signed up through Rockjumper. In the case that a Rockjumper leader is not on board, the professional expedition staff will take care of all participants signed up through Rockjumper.**
Prices are subject to foreign exchange fluctuations.
Auckland & Campbell Teals; King, Gentoo, Snares, Southern Rockhopper, Royal, Yellow-eyed & Little Penguins; Wilson’s, Grey-backed & Black-bellied Storm Petrels; Snowy, Antipodean, Southern Royal, Light-mantled, Black-browed, Campbell, Shy, Salvin’s, Grey-headed, Chatham & Buller’s Albatrosses; Mottled, Cook’s, Magenta, Westland & White-chinned Petrels; Sooty & Little Shearwaters; Chatham, Pitt & Auckland Shags; South Island, Chatham & Variable Oystercatchers; Subantarctic & Snares Snipe; White-fronted Tern; Antipodes, Reischek's & Red-crowned Parakeets; New Zealand Bellbird; Tomtit; New Zealand Fernbird; New Zealand Pipit; Chatham Pigeon; Chatham Gerygone; Black Robin.
New Zealand Sea Lion; New Zealand Fur, Southern Elephant & Leopard Seals; Dusky Dolphin; Southern Right, Sperm, Bryde’s, Long-finned Pilot & Killer Whales.
cool to cold
dependent on ship capacity
relaxed
comfortable expedition cruise ship
mostly undemanding
excellent to extraordinary
We had the most incredible trip, with perfect attention to every possible detail, and to have the added trip to the Penguin Colony on the Falklands was a cherry on the top. The guides were both attentive, and engaging at all levels with every member of the group, as well as helpful to non Rockjumper guests, which made a great impression on them too. Thank you for an overwhelmingly awesome tour.
I had a wonderful time. Our Rockjumper guide, Holly Faithfull, was terrific. She made the cruise, which was already excellent, even better.
I want to thank Rockjumper for doing a charter trip to Antarctica, the Falklands and South Georgia! To me sharing the trip with a ship full of birders was the best; 150 birders what could be better... The guides were accessible and helpful, ship was comfortable, food was good, the Quark expedition folks were excellent, the weather cooperated. All around it was a wonderful trip. Worth the wait! Thank you!
we're back and full of great memories and bird (creature) sightings. Dan and Adam were a great team and did a marvelous job. Ann, John and I are so grateful for all of your help preparing us for the trip, getting us straight on all things Antarctica. We were so pleased with our suite, it turned out so well and comfortable. It could not have been better. I think we got the best deal on board. So many thanks.
This long-awaited culmination of the cruise-that-first-failed satisfied everything I had hoped to experience. The Quark staff did a fantastic job (after that first sit-down meal), and the Rockjumper guides were always around and available to point out birds and things of interest. I am so happy to have this one "under-the-belt" so I now feel more free to make other plans. I truly enjoyed the opportunity to get to know all the Rockjumper guides in a more personal and relaxed mode than we seem to have on regular tours. They all continue to amaze me with their knowledge, wide interests, and willingness to share this lore with others.
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Antarctica - Classic: Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctica II 2017 - November 2017
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Antarctica - Classic: Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctica II 2014 - December 2014
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Antarctica - Classic: Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctica II 2014 - December 2014
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