Plan a trip to Antarctica

Places to see in Antarctica

12 of the 20 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  Vinson Massif

  Mount Vinson

  Mountain

  Vinson Massif is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is 21 km (13 mi) long and 13 km (8 mi) wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. It overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Christian Stangl (CC BY-SA 2.0). Map

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  Lake Vostok

  Озеро Восто́к

  Lake

  Lake Vostok is the largest of Antarctica's 675 known subglacial lakes and the 16th largest lake in the world by area.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Goddard Space Flight Center (Public domain). Map

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  Mount Erebus

  Mountain

  Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, located on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency in Antarctica. With a summit elevation of 3,792 metres (12,441 ft), it is the second most prominent mountain in Antarctica and the second-highest volcano in Antarctica.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Richard Waitt, U.S. Geological Survey (Public domain). Map

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  McMurdo Station

  Town

  McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), a branch of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Gaelen Marsden (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Blood Falls

  Waterfall

  Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron(III) oxide–tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: National Science Foundation/Peter Rejcek (Public domain). Map

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  Ross Island

  Island

  Ross Island is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending 43 nautical miles from Cape Bird in the north to Cape Armitage in the south, and a similar distance from Cape Royds in the west to Cape Crozier in the east. The island is entirely volcanic.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Alan Light (CC BY 2.0). Map

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  Elephant Island

  Island

  Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada (CC BY 2.0). Map

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  King George Island

  Island

  King George Island is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying 120 km off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. The island was named after King George III.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Giovanni Fattori (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Mount Takahe

  Mountain

  Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea. It is a c. 30-kilometre-wide (19 mi) mountain with parasitic vents and a caldera up to 8 kilometres (5 mi) wide.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: US Navy (Public domain). Map

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  McMurdo Sound

  Beach

  The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the South Pole.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Meile (Public domain). Map

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  Mount Terror

  Mountain

  Mount Terror is an extinct volcano about 3,230 metres (10,600 ft) high on Ross Island, Antarctica, about 20 nautical miles eastward of Mount Erebus. Mount Terror was named in 1841 by polar explorer James Clark Ross after his second ship, HMS Terror.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: John Bortniak, NOAA (Public domain). Map

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  Cape Adare

  Viewpoint

  Cape Adare is a prominent cape of black basalt forming the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula and the north-easternmost extremity of Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: United States Geological Survey (Public domain). Map