Day 3

March 11th      Drake Passage, South Shetlands Islands

Wandering albatrosses, storm petrels and other seabirds will escort the vessel as you sail south across this famous passage named after Sir Francis Drake, the 16thcentury English navigator. 

We continued towards the Antarctic Convergence, a biological barrier where cold polar waters sank beneath the warmer waters of the more temperate zone. In 1819, the British explorer William Smith described the South Shetland Islands as “barren and covered with snow, with seals in abundance”.