Second Wave 2026-27 SALE Now On!
ANTARCTICA, SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS & NEW ZEALAND
SAVE up to 20%* across our Southern Programme of voyages exploring coastal New Zealand, Australia and New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands (included in Condé Nast Traveler's 'The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025' along with Heritage Expeditions and our Subantarctic voyages), and down into the 'heart of Antarctica' the Ross Sea.
Book by 30 April 2025 and SAVE up to 20%*
Second Wave 2025-26 Season On Sail
SAVE UP TO 20%* WHEN YOU BOOK BY 30 APRIL 2025
New Zealand Coastal Odyssey: The Ultimate Expedition Cruise of the New Zealand Coast
13 DAYS
11 – 23 Nov 2026 Save 20% on all berths*
Aboard Heritage Adventurer
Auckland to Queenstown, New Zealand
- Discover the primordial majesty and unspoiled beauty of Fiordland
- Wealth of birding highlights on predator-free Ulva Island
- Discover Stewart Island's quirky town centre Oban
- Explore the 'World's Coolest Little Capital,' Wellington
- Visit the quirky avant garde fashion forward city of Dunedin
- Experience traditional Maori arts, craft and culture
- Discover the wildlife and rich history of New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds
- Explore the incredibly beautiful coastal scenery of Abel Tasman National Park
- Experience a taste of France in Akaroa
- Enjoy New Zealand's world-famous wines and gourmet fare
- Marvel at Rotorua's steam vents, geysers and bubbling mud pools
*T&Cs apply, new bookings only, excludes landing fees and optional extras. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, limited availability or until sold out, when booked by 30 April 2025.
Beyond Fiordland: New Zealand's Wildest Islands
12 DAYS
27 Dec 2026 - 7 Jan 2027 SAVE 20% on all berths*
Aboard Heritage Adventurer
Queenstown or Invercargill, New Zealand and Return
- Visit remote New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands and World Heritage Sites: The Snares, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island (as featured in Conde Nast Traveler's influential 'The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025' list)
- Explore Stewart Island and nearby predator-free Ulva Island
- Sail into the heart of Fiordland (Doubtful, Dusky and Milford Sounds, Acheron Passage, Astronomer’s Point and Pickersgill Harbour)
- Includes the option to join a sea kayaking excursion
- Discover the primordial majesty and unspoiled beauty of Fiordland
- Explore sea caves and observe wildlife in spectacular numbers
- Zodiac cruise glittering waterways between podocarp forests looking penguins and dolphins
- Spend the day hiking the unforgettable landscapes of Enderby and Campbell Islands
- Look for the elusive Campbell and Auckland Island Snipe
- Wade waist deep through fields of flowering megaherbs
- Experience the rarely-seen early Albatross courting ritual known as gamming
- Explore wildlife-rich rugged coastlines
- Human history - Coastwatcher's Huts, early settlements and shipwreck tales
- Visit some of New Zealand's most remote and iconic locations, many only accessible by expedition ship
*T&Cs apply, new bookings only, excludes landing fees and optional extras. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, limited availability or until sold out, when booked by 30 April 2025.
Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific: Subantarctic Islands
8 DAYS
27 Dec 2026 – 3 Jan 2027 SAVE 20% on all berths*
Aboard Heritage Adventurer
Queenstown or Invercargill, New Zealand and return
- Visit remote New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands and World Heritage Sites: The Snares, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island (as featured in Conde Nast Traveler's influential 'The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025' list)
- Observe Yellow-eyed penguins/Hoiho make their way to and from the sea to feed hungry chicks on Enderby Island's 'Penguin Highway'
- Hiking on Enderby Island
- Explore wildlife-rich rugged coastlines
- Carpets of flowering endemic daisys and megaherbs on Campbell Island
- Southern Elephant Seals haul out on Northwest Bay, Campbell
- Observe nesting Southern Royal and Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, and numerous endemic birds
- Rare Hooker’s or New Zealand Sea Lions and their pups on Enderby Island
- Human history - Coastwatcher’s Huts, early settlements and shipwreck tales
- Flowering Rata Forests, rolling hills of flowering megaherbs, large tree daisies
- Options to climb spectacular Mt Honey or hike Col Lyall Saddle
- Look for the elusive Subantarctic Snipe on Auckland and Campbell Islands
- Zodiac cruise the The Snares and observe Snares Crested Penguins navigate the 'Penguin Slide'
*T&Cs apply, new bookings only, excludes landing fees and optional extras. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, limited availability or until sold out, when booked by 30 April 2025.
Unseen Fiordland & Stewart Island: Exploring New Zealand's Remote Backyard
6 DAYS
2 – 7 Jan 2027 SAVE 20% on all berths*
Aboard Heritage Adventurer
Queenstown or Invercargill, New Zealand return
- The time-forgot rawness of wildlife-rich Stewart Island
- A wealth of birding highlights on predator-free Ulva Island
- Discover the primordial majesty and unspoiled beauty of Fiordland, visiting Doubtful, Dusky and Mildford Sounds, Acheron Passage, Astronomer’s Point and Pickersgill Harbour
- Experience the thundering spectacle of Stirling Falls
- Explore sea caves and observe wildlife in spectacular numbers
- Zodiac cruise glittering waterways between podocarp forests looking for penguins and dolphins
- Visit some of New Zealand's most remote and iconic locations, many only accessible by expedition ship
- Look for the Stewart Island Brown Kiwi often seen during the day
- Learn about the rich history and conservation efforts of these remote regions
*T&Cs apply, new bookings only, excludes landing fees and optional extras. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, limited availability or until sold out, when booked by 30 April 2025.
Galapagos of the Southern Ocean: New Zealand and Australia's Subantarctic Islands
12 DAYS
22 Nov – 3 Dec 2026 SAVE 15-20% on Select Cabins*
17 – 28 Dec 2026 SAVE 15-20% on Select Cabins*
Queenstown, New Zealand and return
- Visit Australia and New Zealand's wild and remote Subantarctic Islands and World Heritage Sites: The Snares, Auckland Islands, Macquarie Island and Campbell Island (as featured in Conde Nast Traveler's influential 'The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025' list)
- Explore Macquarie Island with Park Ranger guides
- Observe the raucous antics of Macquarie Island's Royal Penguin (the only place in the world they breed) and King Penguin colonies
- Watch lumbering Elephant Seals challenging each other on Macquarie Island
- Zodiac cruise Lusitania Bay - one of the largest penguin breeding colonies on the planet (Macquarie Island)
- Spend the day hiking the unforgettable landscapes of Enderby and Campbell Islands
- Look for the elusive Campbell and Auckland Island Snipe
- Observe Yellow-eyed penguins/Hoiho make their way to and from the sea to feed hungry chicks on Enderby Island's 'Penguin Highway'
- Wade waist deep through fields of flowering megaherbs
- Zodiac cruise the The Snares and observe Snares Crested Penguins navigate the 'Penguin Slide'
- Experience the rarely-seen early Albatross courting ritual known as gamming
- Explore wildlife-rich rugged coastlines
- Human history - Coastwatcher's Huts, early settlements and shipwreck tales
*T&Cs apply, new bookings only, excludes landing fees and optional extras. Save 15% on Worsley Suites and 20% on Heritage Suites, cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, limited availability or until sold out, when booked by 30 April 2025.
Birding Down Under: Subantarctic and Chatham Islands
17 DAYS
2 – 18 Dec 2026 SAVE 15-20% on Select Cabins*
Aboard Heritage Adventurer
Queenstown, New Zealand and return
- The ultimate Subantarctic Island voyage - visit all of New Zealand and Australia's Subantarctic Islands: The Snares, Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Campbell Island and Macquarie Island, Plus the Chatham Islands and its outlying islands - as featured in Conde Nast Traveler's influential 'The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025' list!
- Incredibly rare Chatham Island Black Robin and Taiko (Magenta Petrel), and Forbe's/Chatham Parakeet
- Visit the only breeding sites of the Erect-crested Penguin and home to the world's rarest shag the endemic Bounty Island Shag in Antipodes and Bounty Islands
- Pyramid Rock, the only breeding place of the Chatham Island Albatross
- Cross the Chathams Rise, known location of Wandering Royal and Salvin's Albatross, and Cape, Westland Black and Cook's Petrel
- Observe the raucous antics of Macquarie Island's Royal Penguin (the only place in the world they breed) and King Penguin colonies
- Observe Yellow-eyed penguins/Hoiho make their way to and from the sea to feed hungry chicks on Enderby Island's 'Penguin Highway'
- Watch lumbering Elephant Seals challenging each other on Macquarie Island
- Zodiac cruise Lusitania Bay - one of the largest penguin breeding colonies on the planet (Macquarie Island)
- Look for the elusive Campbell and Auckland Island Snipe
- Zodiac cruise the The Snares and observe Snares Crested Penguins navigate the 'Penguin Slide'
- Experience the rarely-seen early Albatross courting ritual known as gamming
*T&Cs apply, new bookings only, excludes landing fees and optional extras. Save 15% on Worsley Suites and 20% on Heritage Suites, cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, limited availability or until sold out, when booked by 30 April 2025.
In the Wake of Scott & Shackleton: Ross Sea Antarctica
28 DAYS
2027
6 Jan – 2 Feb SAVE up to 20% on Select Cabins*
1 – 28 Feb SAVE up to 20% on Select Cabins*
Queenstown, New Zealand and Return
- 12 incredible days to explore remote Antarctica
- Travel with the original and most experienced Ross Sea operators Heritage Expeditions, we have been exploring the Ross Sea region for more than 35 years
- Explore Scott's perfectly preserved huts at Hut Point & Cape Evans
- Walk in Sir Ernest Shackleton’s footsteps at his huts at Cape Royds
- Venture back in time at Borchgrevink’s Hut at Cape Adare
- Gaze at the towering figure of Mt Erebus amongst a dramatic landscape of glacial ice
- Visit Subantarctic Snares, Auckland, Campbell & Macquarie Islands as featured in Conde Nast Traveler's influential 'The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025' list
- Spend the day hiking amongst megaherbs on the unforgettable landscapes of Enderby and Campbell Islands
- Visit Enderby Island in sea lion breeding season and watch beach master bulls defend their harem
- See the festivities of Royal Penguins on Macquarie Island at their peak
- Marvel at the abundance of wildlife with Emperor Penguins, Royals, Kings, Adelie Penguins, whales, seals and more.
- Observe the raucous Adelie Penguins with chicks about to start fledging
- Catch the peak flowering of the megaherbs in the Subantarctic Campbell Island
- Experience the beauty of 24-hour sunlight in the Ross Sea
- Spot Orca feeding amongst the ice, especially in McMurdo Sound
- Navigate through pack ice that guards the entrance to the Ross Sea
- As featured in television documentaries Go Further South, Antarctica from Above (narrated by Lucy Lawless) and Nigel Marven's The Last Penguin