Antarctica21, the world's first air-cruise to Antarctica
For 15 years, we have been flying travellers and guided adventurers on their discovery journey in Antarctica!
Our key benefits
Comfort: Avoid sea sickness by flying in comfort over the stormy Drake Passage and board your ship directly in Antarctica
Speed: Save time with our 2 hours private flight to the Antarctic Peninsula (instead of 2 days)
Size: We offer boutique adventures aboard small ships carrying a max of 71 guests, so you spend time exploring, not waiting.
Check our air-cruises starting from Punta Arenas, in Chilean Patagonia.
Punta Arenas, the Gateway to Antarctica
Welcome to the southernmost continental point of Chile: Punta Arenas, once a compulsory stop for any ship rounding Cape Horn before the Panama Canal was built. Your Vantage Adventure Leader will show you monuments to the great explorers who stopped here, including Ferdinand Magellan and Ernest Shackleton.
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Magellan Explorer's Christening
On November 8, Antarctica21 celebrates the christening of Magellan Explorer, the world's first polar vessel for Antarctic Air-cruise operations, in Punta Arenas, Chile.
ANTARCTICA XXI: The First Air Cruise to Antarctica
ANTARCTICA XXI pioneered the Antarctic Fly Cruise model and now offers 28 departures on three itineraries each season aboard two different ice-class expedition vessels.
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Flying to Antarctica’s King George Island and back on DAP British Aerospace BAe 146/Avro roundtrip
Here is a video of DAP Airways charter (used by Quark Expeditions and Antarctica XXI) from Punta Arenas to King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. You will see the interior of the aircraft, boarding, meal service, landing in King George Island, penguins, the gravel runway and the embarkation on the return flight! Please like, comment & SUBSCRIBE for more! :)
Antartica XXI
Documental de la Empresa Antartica XXI, empresa de turismo antártico, que consiste en un vuelo desde Punta Arenas hasta la base antártica chilena, y luego viaje de una semana en Barco científico ruso, acondicionada para turismo.
Antarctic Express: Fly the Drake
Short on time, big on adventure? A short three-hour flight is all it takes to travel between Punta Arenas, Chile and King George Island in Antarctica. Skipping all the extra days at sea, you’ll enjoy only the best scenery and wildlife experiences of the Antarctic. Learn more about our Antarctic Express expeditions:
Epic Antarctica Highlights 2016
This footage features highlights of a Fly/Cruise Antarctica Expedition conducted in January of 2016. The beauty of the fly/cruise concept is that it avoids the crossing of the notorious Drake Passage and saves 4 nights. This trip incorporated 5 nights on the ship embarking from King George Island, a 2 hour flight from Punta Arenas in Chile. Hope you enjoy it.
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Chile: Jets land in Punta Arenas as search for missing plane continues
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The search for a missing C-130 aircraft carrying 38 people from Chile to Antarctica continues out of the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas, as the United States, Argentina and Uruguay joined the efforts on Tuesday, 24 hours after the military transport disappeared.
F-16 fighter jets can be seen landing in Punta Arenas, as two merchant chips, two Chilean Navy ships and a variety of aircraft from the Chilean Air Force continue to search the area where the plane disappeared.
Uruguay and Argentina have each dispatched a C-130 plane to help the search effort, while two US satellites are searching for signs of the missing plane from orbit.
Chilean Defence Minister Alberto Espina and Chilean Air Force Commander in Chief, General Arturo Merino Nunez have been in Punta Arenas since Tuesday morning to coordinate the search operation.
Officials said the C-130 Hercules took off in favourable conditions, carrying 17 crew members and 21 passengers to a Chilean base in Antarctica on Monday. It was declared lost seven hours after contact was cut off.
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Day 4-6: Arriving in Antarctica [Full Version]
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(Chile) Punta Arenas; (Antarctica) Union Glacier, Mt Vinson Basecamp
Stepping into the timeless world of Antarctica and up to the basecamp of Mt Vinson, from where the expedition officially begins.
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Star Princess Antarctica & S America, King penguins of Falkland Islands
Travel slide show of Ipanema Beach, folkloric show, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, King penguins at Volunteer Beach, Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas, Elephant Island, Cape Petrels, Admiralty Bay, Gerlache Strait, Neumayer Channel, Paradise Harbor, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Ushuaia, Argentina, canoeing in Tierra del Fuego National Park, Beagle Channel between Chile and Argentina, Magellanic penguins at Otway Sound, Punta Arenas, Chile and Punta Tombo, Argentina (Patagonia), Welsh tea house in Gaiman, Argentina, Jaunico Winery, tango, Montevideo, Uruguay. Star Princess cruise December 20, 2010 -- January 9, 2011
Music: Click Click (feat, Tanakasomething) by Grünemusik
2019 - Chile - C-130 Military Transport Plane with 38 On Board Disappears over Antarctica - 10/12
(SANTIAGO, CHILE, AP, 10 Dec 2019) - Chile's air force said it lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight on Monday evening (9 Dec 2019) to the country's base in Antarctica.
It said the military had declared an alert and activated a search and rescue team.
The C-130 Hercules carried 17 crew members and 21 passengers. The personnel were to check on a floating fuel supply line and other equipment at the Chilean base.
The plane took off at 4.55pm from the southern city of Punta Arenas, which is more than 3,000 kilometres from the capital Santiago.
Contact was lost at 6.13pm, the statement said.
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(BBC News, 10 Dec 2019) - A military plane with 38 on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chile's air force says in a statement.
The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft took off from Punta Arenas at 16:55 local time (19:55 GMT), and operators lost contact soon after 18:00 (21:00).
Among the missing are 17 crew members and 21 passengers, who were travelling to provide logistical support.
Chile's air force said a search and rescue operation is under way to recover the plane and those missing.
News agency EFE reports that three of those on board are civilians.
Air Force General Eduardo Mosqueira told local media that the plane did not give any distress signals before disappearing.
He said the plane may have been forced to land after running out of fuel during its journey to Chile's Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva base, on King George Island.
Two F-16 fighter jets and four ships have been dispatched to assist with search efforts.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said in a tweet that he was dismayed by the disappearance, and was monitoring the situation from the capital, Santiago.
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Antarctic Fly Cruise in 60 Seconds
Short on time, big on adventure? A short three-hour flight is all it takes to travel between Punta Arenas, Chile and King George Island in Antarctica. Skipping all the extra days at sea, you’ll enjoy only the best scenery and wildlife experiences of the Antarctic. Learn more about our Antarctic Express expeditions:
Chile military plane crashes near Antarctic with 38 on board, hopes of finding survivors fade
Chile's Air Force on Tuesday (December 10) said one of its cargo planes had crashed with 38 people on board after going missing in an isolated area between South America and the Antarctic, with the chance of finding survivors looking difficult.
The Hercules C-130 aircraft took off at 4:55 p.m. (1955 GMT) on Monday from the southern city of Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia and was heading to a base in Antarctica. But controllers lost contact with the plane shortly after 6:00 p.m.
The Air Force said in a statement it had yet to locate the plane but had concluded the plane must have crashed, given the number of hours it had been missing. The defense minister added that hope for finding survivors was fading.
The plane was carrying 17 crew members and 21 passengers, the Air Force said. Its rescue team was scouring the area where it lost communication with the plane, with the goal of rescuing possible survivors.
The crash comes at a turbulent time for Chile and President Sebastian Pinera, who has been grappling with rising discontent that has sparked almost two months of riots in the capital city, Santiago, and heaped pressure on his government.
The region where the plane disappeared is a vast, largely untouched ocean wilderness of penguin-inhabited ice sheets off the edge of the South American continent.
Those aboard the plane were to perform logistical support tasks for the maintenance of Chilean facilities at the Antarctic base, the Air Force said.
Antarctica Expedition on the Sea Adventurer 2015
I made this video for Grandview Elementary in Dothan, Alabama so they could experience Antarctica, penguins, icebergs, whales, and traveling polar seas.
We traveled to Antarctica on the Quark Expeditions Sea Adventurer from Ushuaia, Argentina and returned by jet from King George Island Antarctica to Punta Arenas, Chile during our trip January 3 to January 15, 2015.
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Pinguinos - Isla Magdalena - Punta Arenas - Chile
La isla Magdalena está ubicada en la Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena. Está formada por las islas Magdalena (85 hectáreas) y Marta, 35 kms (12 hectáreas) al noreste de Punta Arenas.
Se llega a través del ferry Crux Australis de Transbordadora Austral Broom que se demora en llegar a la isla unas 2 horas aproximadamente. (tabsa.cl), se permanece en la isla 1 hora recorriendo un camino de 850 metros.
Esta constituida principalmente por pingüinos de Magallanes que nidifican en Isla Magdalena, estimándose una colonia de aproximadamente 69.000 parejas.
Existen además otras especies de aves y mamíferos, que se encuentran principalmente en Isla Marta, cormoranes, gaviota común, gaviota austral y salteador.
También se observan mamíferos marinos como lobo común y lobo fino.
Como es el pingüino de Magallanes
Posee el pico con borde grisáceo y un notorio borde circular blanco, que nace en la frente y se junta con la garganta. Su cabeza, collar y partes superiores son de color negro. De frente se observan 2 bordes pectorales negros y el resto de sus partes inferiores son blancas con línea negra que corre paralela al negro del dorso.
Los 2 sexos son muy similares pero los machos son de mayor tamaño que las hembras y la diferencia en peso son de aproximadamente 4.500 y 3.750 gramos respectivamente. Se alimenta de diferentes especies de peces como anchovetas.
Como es su ciclo de reproducción
Su arribo a la colonia es alrededor del mes de septiembre. La puesta de huevos ocurre en octubre y tras 40 días de incubación eclosionan en noviembre. La independencia de los polluelos sucede en enero -- febrero. Posteriormente viene el periodo de muda de los adultos y su salida en abril hacia las aguas costeras del Atlántico y del Pacifico donde se alimentan en alta mar y migran, hasta su retorno a la colonia en septiembre.
Nidifican en cuevas que cavan ellos mismos y generalmente ponen 2 huevos.
Esta isla puede ser visitada entre octubre y marzo, la duración del viaje es de 5 horas ida y vuelta con una permanencia de 1 hora en la isla. Tiempo suficiente para recorrer el sendero de 850 metros. Este monumento natural recibe más de 23.000 personas durante la temporada.
La isla cuenta con la presencia permanente de guarda parqués y una sala de información habilitada en una casa faro declarada monumento nacional por su antigua data (del siglo pasado), donde se encontrara información histórica y antecedentes de flora y fauna.
Historia de las islas.
Las islas Marta y Magdalena (junto a Isabel y contramaestre) son las más orientales del estrecho de Magallanes, esta condición las transformaba en el límite este de los canoeros Kawesqar, que habitaban este territorio hace miles de años. Las islas eran un lugar privilegiado por la abundancia y diversidad de fauna.
Estos antiguos navegantes posibilitaron la comunicación entre los cazadores terrestres del continente y de Tierra del Fuego que no navegaban, a través de este puente de islas, diversos sitios arqueológicos así lo demuestran.
A partir de 1520 las islas fueron utilizadas por los exploradores europeos para abastecerse de grandes cantidades de huevos y carne, para proseguir sus viajes por el mundo.
Magdalena Island is located in the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica. It consists of the islands of Magdalena (85 hectares) and Marta, 35 kms (12 hectares) northeast of Punta Arenas.
It comes through the ferry Crux Australis Austral Broom Transbordadora it takes to get to the island about 2 hours. (tabsa.cl), it remains on the island one hour a journey of 850 meters.
This consists mainly of Magellanic penguins that nest on Isla Magdalena, estimating a colony of about 69,000 pairs.
There are other species of birds and mammals, which are mainly located in Isla Marta, cormorants, common gull, gull austral and a robber.
Marine mammals are also seen as common wolf fur.
Aircraft landing in Antartica.avi
Aircraft arriving at King George island in Antarctica to take Bill Gates and family back to Chile, March 2010. The aircraft is a BAE 146 -200 flown by Aerovías DAP (Las Aerolíneas de la Patagonia), an airline based in Punta Arenas, Chile.
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Antarctica 2016
Antarctica 2016 with Antarctica XXI, including stops in Punta Arenas and Puerto Williams, Chile and Ushuaia, Argentina.
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'This is an Adventure' by The Lighthouse and the Whaler
'On Top of the World' by Imagine Dragons