1. Skip to navigation
  2. Skip to content
  3. Skip to sidebar

Gigapans

NEW! Print your gigapan now!
Go to page:

  1. The largest King Penguin rookery in the world is in St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia. The penguins have a complicated reproductive cycle, and this rookery is occupied by penguins year-round. They are a noisy group, but they are not as smelly as the Adelie, Gentoo or Chinsatrap Penguins that we met on this voyage. The ...

    • 13449-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      3
      Comments
      1
      Snapshots
      8
      Total Views
      9227
      Explore Score
      80

  2. We were on a Quark Explorers Cruise on the MV Professor Multanovskiy, and we were exploring the Antarctic Peninsula. It was a beautiful day a after an impressive storm at sea. We took shelter from the gale in Hope Harbor, and we were invited ashore when the weather cleared. It was a great landing. Base Esperanza i...

    • 18611-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      1
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      10
      Total Views
      7348
      Explore Score
      26

  3. This relatively small group of King Penguins posed nicely for some of the photographers in our group.These penguins stand at the beach-side end of a large King Penguin rookery much like that seen more broadly in the St Andrews Bay South Georgia panorama on the gigapan site. There was a question about the brown chicks ...

    • 13552-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      4
      Comments
      1
      Snapshots
      5
      Total Views
      5149
      Explore Score
      22

  4. Gold Harbour is a beautiful sight even without the help of this well-placed rainbow. The name probably came from the iron pyrite, also known as fools' gold, that is found in the rocks here.This is a place of considerable geologic upheaval where the Cumberland Bay Formation rocks meet the Sandebugten Formation rocks. As...

    • 13533-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      9
      Total Views
      5570
      Explore Score
      20

  5. Cierva Cove is on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, nestled in the north of Hughs Bay. Base Primavera is an Argentine research station on Cierva Point. The base is open only in the summer, and we were fortunate enough to arrive on a brilliant day just before the station closed for 2008. The ice-strewn cove prov...

    • 12337-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      13
      Total Views
      7457
      Explore Score
      1

  6. We left Ushuaia 3 days ago, and the waves and wind of the Drake Passage are behind us. We are in the South Shetland Islands, just west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Now we set out to explore Antarctica and its wildlife. This is Half Moon Island in the entrance of Livingston Island's Half Moon Bay.

    • 12575-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      8
      Total Views
      3852
      Explore Score
      1

  7. Here is a closer look at West Point Island's Rockhopper Penguin and Black-browed Albatross nests You can see more Albatrosses in the sky and on the cliffs in the distance.

    • 16097-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      6
      Total Views
      3636
      Explore Score
      1

  8. We tend think of penguins as rather large, feathered animals that live on icebergs and star in feature-length movies and cartoons. I was surprised to discover that penguins can also be found in holes in the loose pebbly soil of New Island in the Falkland Islands. The burrows were high up the hill, way above the sea, an...

    • 13137-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      2
      Total Views
      2367
      Explore Score
      1

  9. SeaWorld Orlando is one of the eight world class theme parks in Central Florida. Of all the parks, this is one of my favorites for a fun relaxing day in a beautifully landscaped area with all sorts of neat sea animal exhibits and shows. It also features a couple adrenaline rides like the coaster Kraken and the Journey ...

    • 27036-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      1
      Total Views
      2112
      Explore Score
      1

  10. We crossed the Wooly Gut from West Falkland, and we landed on West Point Island on a bright Sunday morning. Land Rovers took us across the island to these grassy cliffs that overlook the Atlantic Ocean. Here we found a colony of Rockhopper Penguins and Black-browed Albatross. I can understand the how the island got its...

    • 15631-210x140

    • Stats

      Favorites
      0
      Comments
      0
      Snapshots
      1
      Total Views
      1927
      Explore Score
      1
Go to page: