Listen to the names: Snares, Bounty, Antipodes,\u00a0Auckland, Campbell, Macquarie and Chatham\u00a0Islands. They are music to the ears of \u2018Bird\u00a0Photographers\u2019.\u00a0Apart\u00a0from the Chathams, these islands are probably\u00a0more isolated now than they were when they\u00a0were discovered in the late 1700s and early 1800s\u00a0and were regularly visited by sealers, whalers and\u00a0government steamers searching for castaway sailors.\u00a0While it is relatively simple to get to the Chatham\u00a0Islands, opportunities to visit the others are rare.\u00a0This expedition, as featured in Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler\u2019s\u00a0influential \u2018The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025\u2019\u00a0list, is the only one to include all of these islands. The islands occupy the\u00a0tempestuous latitudes\u00a0of the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties, but they are also known as the Albatross Latitudes and with\u00a0good reason. Ten of\u00a0the world\u2019s albatross species\u00a0breed in the region:\u00a0five of them nowhere else but\u00a0here.\u00a0In fact, this zone, where the air is never still,\u00a0hosts the most diverse collection of seabirds in the\u00a0world. More than 40 species breed here\u00a0which\u00a0is\u00a0at least 11 per cent\u00a0of the entire world\u2019s seabird\u00a0species.\u00a0With the\u00a0exception of the Chathams, the islands\u00a0are all designated UNESCO World Heritage sites\u00a0and are afforded the highest conservation status\u00a0and\u00a0protection by the Australian and New Zealand\u00a0governments, so passage to their shores is not\u00a0granted lightly. There are also islands that we visit\u00a0within\u00a0the Chatham Islands\u2019 Archipelago with similar\u00a0status and protection.\u00a0This expedition has huge appeal to\u00a0pelagic\u00a0enthusiasts,\u00a0seabird photographers\u00a0and those interested\u00a0in island endemics. Though you don\u2019t have to be a\u00a0keen birder to enjoy this voyage, people interested in\u00a0islands and island ecology,\u00a0botany, geology and an\u00a0increasing number of photographers have enjoyed\u00a0this trip immensely, as have those interested in the\u00a0history of southern\u00a0ocean discovery and exploration.\u00a0Bird-Photo-Tours ASIA is the specialist in bird photography throughout Asia and Oceania and this subantarctic cruise provides quite literally a once-in-a-lifetime adventure photographing albatrosses, petrels, penguins and many other seabirds in one of the most outstanding locations in Oceania.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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