January 12, 2023 – Day 9: Deception Island

Today’s landing site was Telefon Bay in Deception Island. Deception Island is a round, horse shoe shaped island and is the caldera of an active volcano. We navigated through a narrow opening into the caldera. It was a very geologically interesting place.

It also had abandoned science station and whaling station, which we saw from the ship on the way in/out.

Then we went around the outside of the island to Bailey Head, where there’s the largest chinstrap penguin colony.

Tomorrow will be our last day in Antarctica before we head back to Ushuaia.