DESTINATION / ANTARCTICA
The Weddell Sea is considered Antarctica’s ‘deep south’, a place of tabular icebergs and raw beauty. The winds can make any activities here impossible. Thankfully when I visit, they’re calm, and we’re able to make a string of landings: to a hut on Snow Hill Island where a Swedish Antarctic expedition had wintered in 1902; and to Vega Island, a speck of land rich in terrestrial and marine fossils. These are just two of the end-of-world places I never knew existed before my Ponant cruise. But, in its fleet.
