Beyond the edge of the map, where the South Atlantic turns wild, lie the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, the richest wildlife theatre on Earth. This is a rare, compact expedition to a place most travellers only dream of. Fly in to begin, cruise the storied sub-Antarctic, and fly home, trading the long ocean passage for more time where it matters most.

South Georgia is the crown. Picture beaches that stretch for miles carpeted with hundreds of thousands of king penguins, their calls rolling like surf. Elephant seals sparring in the shallows. Fur seal pups at your feet. Wandering albatross wheeling overhead on three metre wings. All of it framed by glaciated peaks that rise sheer from a cobalt sea. Here, too, walks the ghost of Shackleton: the whaling station at Grytviken, his resting place, and a toast to the greatest survival story ever told.

The Falklands open the journey with their own wild charm: rockhopper penguins on the cliffs, vast black browed albatross colonies, gentoos on white sand beaches, and the windswept, British tinged character of the islands.