Antarctica Whale Watching Holidays

An impressive list of cetaceans frequent the southern oceans of Antarctica during the summer including orcas, humpbacks and minke whales.

Few spectacles in the natural world beat the sight of a breaching humpback whale, an experience that’s only enhanced by the pristine surroundings, or spotting pods of killer whales – 70,000 of the world’s total population of 100,000 calls Antarctica home. If there’s such a thing as whale paradise, it exists here in Antarctica, with a supporting cast of vast colonies of penguins, seals and other seabirds.

Around the Antarctic Peninsula, humpback whales are often observed lunge feeding near the surface or breaching. These are the true extroverts of the cetacean world – waving flippers in the air, spy-hopping, bubble-net feeding or leaping vertically from the sea. They never fail to amaze. Fin and sei whales occasionally make an appearance while the more numerous minke whale is likely to be encountered near the pack ice.