Magellanic Penguins on Tour | Articles of Interest for Travelers to The Antarctic
The Magellanic Penguin
Favoring the continent’s cool temperate waters, Magellanic penguins are a popular sight on many Southern Explorations Patagonia tours in Argentina and Chile. Depending on the location, other species may be spotted as well, including Humboldts, a temperate species tolerated by the Magellanic, and adolescent Gentoos that travel further outside their range than younger and older of their kind that normally inhabit the Antarctic Peninsula as well as the Falkland and South Shetland islands.
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Magellanic Penguins on Tour
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To observe Magellanics, Southern Explorations takes travelers to seven different locations on five Argentina tours, seven Chile tours and six combo-country trips that include stops in both Chile and Argentina. In many of these places, penguins are abundant and approachable.
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Argentina tours
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Five of our Argentina tours that include penguins travel to Tierra del Fuego. These are the ten-day Patagonia Highlights trip, the eleven-day Patagonia Hiking Adventure, the twelve-day Patagonia Hiking and Iguazu Falls trip, the thirteen-day Best of Argentina trip and the sixteen-day Patagonia Hiking Explorations trip. These Patagonia tours visit a Magellanic penguin rookery at Martillo Island in the Beagle Channel, sometimes visited by Gentoos.
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If you wish to walk among the penguins, check out the Patagonia Highlights trip and Best of Argentina trip mentioned above. In addition to visiting Martillo Island, these itineraries travel to the Valdes Peninsula where Magellanics are found and offer a one-of-a-kind close-up penguin encounter at the Punta Tombo Reserve.
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Chile Tours
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To see Magellanic penguins in Chile, consider our itineraries that travel to Torres del Paine National Park. Seven of them include a visit to a penguin rookery at Otway Sound on the way to or after visiting the park. Otway Sound is one of the few places in the world where Magellanic and Humboldt penguins co-habit. Ranging from seven-to fourteen days, some of these trips are lodge-based and others are camping trips. The trips that visit Chile only are: the seven-day Patagonia Lodges trip, the eight-day Torres del Paine W Hike and Lodge-based W Hike trips, the nine-day Patagonia Estancias & Lodges and W Multi Sport trips, the eleven-day Circuit trip and the fourteen-day Patagonia Multi Sport trip.
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Combo-country travel to Argentina and Chile
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If your Patagonia dreaming includes a desire to visit sites on both the Argentina and Chile sides of region, it opens up more penguin possibilities. The fourteen-day Patagonia Hiking Panorama and the Patagonia Hiking/Australis Glacier trips and sixteen-day Patagonia Hiking Plus/Australis glacier trip visit Otway Sound. The Australis itineraries also visit a small Magellanic colony at Tucker Islet in Ainsworth Bay as well as Martillo Island in Tierra del Fuego. The twenty-one-day Full Patagonia trip visits three locations during the portion of the trip that travels to Argentina, the Valdes Peninsula, the Punta Tombo Reserve and Martillo Island.
