Tag: Macquarie Island

When you ask someone why they want to take a cruise to Antarctica, we can guarantee that seeing penguins is always pretty high on the wishlist. And rightly so. Every Antarctic trip will go big on opportunities to see penguins, and even the most casual observer quickly becomes an expert at picking out a gentoo […]

Islands are nature’s laboratories. Their small self-contained ecosystems can allow animals and plants to flourish that wouldn’t be possible elsewhere. But their size means that those ecosystems can be fragile when exposed to outside influence. Within 60 years of the first sailors landing on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, the flightless dodo had been […]