AdventureSmith Explorations Unveils New Antarctica Cruises for 2025-26

AdventureSmith Explorations is rolling out new Antarctica itineraries for 2025 and 2026.

The small-ship line will be taking guests to destinations like East Antarctica, the Ross Sea and Subantarctic islands that just 1.5 percent of Antarctic travelers visit each year. The trips will be offered onboard the Douglas Mawson, the new 154-guest ship owned by Aurora Expeditions.

The company is also offering an early bird discount with savings of up to 20 percent for trips booked by June 30, 2024.

“Very few ships venture across Antarctica’s remote Southern Ocean but the rewards are great,” says Todd Smith, founder and president AdventureSmith Explorations. “For those who want a truly comprehensive and unique experience in Antarctica, these epic itineraries aboard the brand-new Douglas Mawson are without a doubt, bucket-list trips. Travelers can embark from Australia and New Zealand and access varied landscapes, endemic wildlife and rarely visited historic explorer huts.”

The new trips include:

• Epic Antarctic Odyssey: Crossing the 7th Continent, a 34-day cruise departing from Dunedin, New Zealand, to Ushuaia, Argentina, in February 2026. The voyage will explore the Subantarctic Islands, as well as the Ross Sea, the Bellingshausen Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula.
• Ross Sea Odyssey, a 24- or 25-day voyage departing in December 2025 and January 2026. Travelers will have a chance to visit Macquarie Island, as well as the Auckland and Campbell Islands.
• Mawson’s Antarctica, a 24-day itinerary that retraces Douglas Mawson’s 1911 voyage to East Antarctica. The trip includes a visit to Mawson’s hut at Commonwealth Bay in George V Land, Antarctica; the ship will also attempt to position itself over the South Magnetic Pole, which has migrated out to sea.

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