Photographing Penguins in Antarctica

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Tuesday, 6 January 2026 - The ship navigated along B15ABs extensive, flat-sided ice walls while observing penguins, seals, and a fin whale, highlighting the scale and structure of one of Antarcticas most significant ice formations.

Polar Expedition arranged for the ship to sail by a huge iceberg called B15AB.

Iceberg B15 was the largest recorded iceberg by area. It measured around 159 by 20 miles, about the size of Jamaica. Calved from the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica in March 2000, Iceberg B15 broke up into smaller icebergs, the largest of which was named Iceberg B15A. The pieces are named as the iceberg breaks up, and B15AB is the largest piece remaining.

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The huge iceberg dwarfed the ship. And it went one and on as soon as we would pass one edge the next edge would be miles away.
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B15AB was so even or that is how it appeared not like the smaller sculpted icebergs we had seen before. It was created from an ice shelf fed by glaciers, so it was a sheet of ice therefore no little variance height.
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A couple of Chinstrap penguins float by. We were all standing at the front of the ship outside marveling at this giant iceberg.
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Then we would reach a corner, and another side would go into the distance.
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A seal on an iceberg floats by seeming so tiny.
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B15AB has such an angular structure. The guides said by next season it will have wandered into warmer water and this could be the last they see the big burg.
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Chinstraps in the water. No way they can get on the big ice.
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Another seal this time much closer. There must be fish near B15AB.
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And a Fin whale joins the party.
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Off our other side a small (still very large) iceberg floats by - a piece of the big one?

We did see in the distance a very large iceberg like B15AB which could have been a result of B15AB breaking in half.
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The ice is so pretty, white and blue.
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We left B15AB with a last long look as the iceberg stretches into the distance.
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