Featured destinations

Twenty years of expedition travel, gathered by place. Each destination opens the journal entries and photographs from that part of the world.

South Atlantic

King penguins in their hundreds of thousands, hanging glaciers, and Shackleton’s grave at Grytviken.

Southern Ocean

Islands scattered through the Southern Ocean, most of them days from anywhere and landed on only when the weather allows.

South Atlantic

Black-browed albatross colonies, rockhopper penguins, and a wind that never quite stops.

High Arctic

Polar bears on the pack ice at 80° north, in light that lasts the whole night.

Arctic

Icebergs the size of city blocks drifting out of the fjords of the east coast.

North Atlantic

Waterfalls, black sand and the volcanic interior, in the long light of the northern summer.

Bering Sea

Abandoned villages and treeless volcanic islands strung across the North Pacific.

Southern Africa

The dunes at Sossusvlei, the Skeleton Coast, and desert-adapted wildlife in Damaraland.

Ecuador

Wildlife with no fear of people — boobies, iguanas and sea lions at arm’s length.

South America

Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, and the high Andes above Cusco.

East Asia

Temples, snow country, and the crowded, orderly quiet of the cities.

North-west Australia

King George River, Montgomery Reef, and a coastline you can only reach by sea.