Antarctica Expeditions

Expedition Leaders

Veteran expedition leaders are the orchestrators of your experience. Many have advanced degrees and have conducted research or taught for years. They have achieved expedition leader status because they possess the skills, the experience, and the depth of knowledge necessary to continually craft the best expedition possible for our guests.

Naturalist

Explore Antarctica with a diverse team of naturalists, many of them polar veterans, of a variety of specialties: zoology, biology, ornithology, geology, polar history, and more. Our guests consistently cite the expertise and engaging company of our staff as key reasons to repeatedly travel with us.

Undersea Specialist

Discover what lies beneath the waves with an undersea specialist aboard who can dive into the cold waters to shoot video or deploy an ROV to depths of 1,000 feet to explore rarely seen regions.

National Geographic Photography Expert

Travel and shoot with a bona fide National Geographic Photography Expert. These top pros are at your side and at your service—providing advice, inspiration, tips, and slideshows. Access to photographers of this caliber will help you improve your skills and ensure you’ll go home with incredible photos. 

Certified Photo Instructor

Every Antarctic expedition also offers an exclusive service—a Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic certified photo instructor. This naturalist is specially trained to help you become a better, more confident photographer—and to help you understand the movements of wildlife so you can create top shots.

Wellness Specialist

Our wellness program embodies the belief that nature is vitalizing and that wildness, as Thoreau famously said, supplies a tonic. Wellness specialists are fully accredited and experienced licensed massage therapists and are aboard every ship in the National Geographic-flagged fleet. They lead morning stretch class on the deck, aerobic walks ashore, kayak outings, and more.

Christian Cooper

Christian Cooper is the Host and a Consulting Producer for the upcoming National Geographic series Extraordinary Birder. As a board member of the New York City Audubon Society, he advocates for greater, safer access to green spaces for all, with a focus on outreach to youth in underserved communities. He looks forward to bringing the gospel of birding to ever wider audiences through Extraordinary Birder and his memoir, Better Living Through Birding, forthcoming from Random House.

Join him on the the December 7, 2023, departure of Journey to Antarctica: the White Continent.

Mensun Bound

Born in the Falkland Islands, Mensun Bound was the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford, and the director of the first academic unit for underwater archaeology in England. Known as the "Indiana Jones of the Deep," Bound has conducted wreck surveys and excavations all over the world in a career that spanned 40 years, and was Director of Exploration for the search mission that located the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance. 

Join him aboard the February 26, 2024, departure of South Georgia and the Falklands.

Jay Dickman

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jay Dickman's career has spanned more than 40 years. Among his more than 25 assignments for National Geographic, he lived in a Stone Age village in Papua New Guinea and spent a week under the Arctic ice in a nuclear attack submarine. A popular photography instructor, he has also published a best-selling guide called Perfect Digital Photography, as well as numerous articles for National Geographic, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, Time, and Forbes.

Join him aboard the Feb. 15, 2024, departure of Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falklands. 

Krista Rossow

Krista Rossow began her career as a photo editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine. She has shot feature stories as a contributing photographer for Traveler in Japan, South Africa, Morocco, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and various U.S. cities. She regularly judges Instagram contests for @NatGeoTravel and photo edits for National Geographic Books.

Join her aboard the Dec. 21 and Dec. 31, 2023, departures of Journey to Antarctica: The White Continent.

Peter Hillary

Peter Hillary is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest with his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay in 1953. He is the first second-generation to climb Mount Everest, he has climbed the Seven Summits (the highest mountain on each of the seven continents), and he has been on more than 40 mountaineering expeditions around the world.

Join him on the Oct. 29, 2024, departure of Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falklands.

David Allen Sibley

David Allen Sibley is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including the New York Times bestseller The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has contributed art and articles to numerous publications and wrote and illustrated a syndicated column for The New York Times. 

Join him aboard the Nov. 19, 2024, departure of Antarctica Direct: Sail and Fly the Drake Passage. 

Camille Seaman

Camille Seaman has spent the last two decades documenting the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth's polar regions. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Outside, TIME, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and American Photo, among other outlets. She leads photographic workshops all over the globe and enjoys inspiring others to develop a unique visual voice.

Join her on the Feb. 19, 2024, departure of Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falklands.

Nick Cobbing

Photojournalist and filmmaker Nick Cobbing requently works in Antarctica and the Arctic, and has accompanied scientists on research expeditions based on icebreaker ships or even camped on the Arctic ice. His story on the future of Arctic sea ice appeared in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. He has also worked for media brands like GEO (Germany), The Sunday Times Magazine, and the BBC.

Join him on the Oct. 8, 2024, departure of South Georgia and the Falklands.

Isaí Madriz

R. Isaí Madriz, Ph.D. is a photographer, storyteller, and entomologist, with expertise in freshwater aquatic insects of Patagonia. To bring attention to insect conservation in this area of the world, Madriz writes stories of the vanishing insect diversity, exploration, and science using macrophotography to showcase the six-legged jewels of Patagonia.

Join him aboard the Feb. 27, 2025, departure of Antarctica and Patagonia: Legendary Ice and Epic Fjords.