Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Companions during the long passages in the Southern Ocean: cape petrels and a gull (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

First landfall on Antarctic Peninsula: volcanic Penguin Island (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Chinstrap penguins and whalebone on Penguin Island (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

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View from shore as snow falls (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Ship in an ice-strewn sea (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Bergs and birds with stormclouds (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Ponant ship L'Austral among icebergs (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Ship dwarfed by the scale of Antarctic ice (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Snowy sheathbills rest on snowbank (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Gentoo penguins cross a human path (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

The ineffable blue of underwater ice (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Blue berg in calm sea (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Boat skipper pours a celebratory toast (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Toasting an exceptional voyage (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)

Sunset over Antarctic Peninsula (PHOTO: Kennedy Warne)