Luxury Vacations in Antarctica

Antarctica is a gallery of icebergs as fascinating as the humpback whales who migrate here each year. Sculpted by wind and water, these skyscraper-high white monoliths fill the bays and skirt the shorelines, drifting in deep blue currents. Their colors are intense – that glittering unearthly white, the strange blues of their hollows, and the vivid greeny-blues underwater.

They say the White Continent is the closest thing on Earth to the planet Mars. NASA uses it for training, bringing prospective astronauts here to experience the isolation, the extremes, the sense of displacement from the world we know. Startlingly beautiful and endlessly fascinating, Antarctica is alien terrain – unique and unearthly. The thrilling bite of the polar winds and the landscapes crusted with ice transform everyday tales of wildlife – penguin, orca, elephant seal – into epic sagas of survival. This is the sort of place you wouldn’t last half a day without a support system, but with A&K, witnessing the world’s most remote and hostile environment is as comfortable and snug as a stay in any luxury hotel. Some cruises to this region also visit the Falklands and South Georgia, which is home to four species of penguin and the world’s largest concentration of seals and albatrosses.