Making the most of Livingston Island
Use these notes to shape a realistic day ashore, then confirm any time-sensitive information for the date of your call.
Arriving at the port
As cruise ships are not able to dock here you will be tendered by inflatable zodiac boats.
Sightseeing
Livingston Island is one of the South Shetland Islands off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is one of the most popular stops in Antarctica, mainly because of its large chinstrap and gentoo rookeries (which sometimes have macaroni penguins nesting among them)., as well as large flocks of skuas, southern giant petrels, sheath bills, and nesting kemp gulls. In the early-19th-century, Livingston Island was a major sealing center - English sealers took more than 95,000 fur seal skins on the western part of the island alone. Hannah Point, named after the British sealer "Hannah" (from Liverpool), which was wrecked in the South Shetlands on…