THE ANTARCTIC DIARY
Welcome to your journey with us, to the world’s most magical continent.
- ANTARCTICA, NOVEMBER 11, 2025
- By Murray Williams
Just 16 humans – out of a global population of +- 8.2 billion people – will get to experience this, in the year 2025.
And the first eight blessed explorers of this Antarctic Summer Season have just returned to Cape Town, after Ultima’s first “Emperor Penguins & Drygalski Mountains Expedition” of the year.
Hailed as a breathtaking success, these “Postcards from Antarctica” were captured by veteran Antarctic advocate and expert lensman, David Sinclair, founder of Islands & Ice Travel – the leader of this Expedition.
This is the only Antarctic Expedition – across this vast, remote continent – which visits TWO Emperor Penguin colonies, as well as the soaring Drygalski Mountains.
These iconic sites are reached in three separate flights within Antarctica, aboard the heroic de Havilland Twin Otter, which is specially equipped to touch down lightly on its snow-skis.
Bookings are now open for the austral Antarctic Summer Season of 2026-2027, with just 8 seats available, between the following early-summer dates:
November 1-8, 2026
To see these sights, with your own eyes, bookings can be made through this link: Emperor Penguins and Drygalski Mountains – Ultima Antarctic Expeditions
This specific Expedition is a partnership between Ultima Antarctic Expeditions and Islands & Ice Travel, led by David Sinclair.
- ANTARCTICA, OCTOBER 29, 2025
- By Murray Williams
Ultima Antarctic Expeditions is honoured to open our “Season-on-Ice 2025-2026” – our expedition season in the austral summer between October 2025 and February 2026.
Wednesday October 29 marked our first inter-continental flight with expeditions guests, of the season – the 5.5-6-hour flight south between Cape Town International Airport, South Africa, before touching down at Ultima Air Base, in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.
And simultaneously, landing on the blue ice runway, were our expert partners from Kenn Borek Air in their Basler BT-67 and de Havilland Twin Otter aircraft (pictured above), after their epic annual journey down the east coasts of North and South America, from Canada.
In the weeks and months ahead, these versatile aircraft will serve both the extraordinarily valuable international scientific community.
And, filling rare seats on our journeys south, will be our visiting tourist explorers – a pilgrimage to witness truly extraordinary destinations across the 7th continent.
As we serve these guests, we will offer a window-seat into our world – delivered by our diverse team, in this place we revere and respect.
As we document this passage of time, we will simultaneously guide future guests to our expeditions on offer in the summer season of next year, between October 2026 and February 2027. See our website, www.ultima-antarcticexpeditions.com for details, under “Expeditions” drop-down menu.
Our Ultima Antarctic “Season-on-Ice 2025-2026” has begun! For a fortunate few. Rare by nature.
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