Heritage Expeditions Birding Down Under Voyage 2025

Join Heritage Expeditions as we relive our signature Birding Down Under expedition cruise visiting New Zealand's Subantarctic Snares, Auckland, Enderby, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands, Australia's Macquarie Island and Chatham Island and its outlying islands. The islands occupy the tempestuous latitudes of the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties, but they are also known as the Albatross Latitudes and with good reason. Ten of the world's albatross species breed in the region; five of them nowhere else but here! In fact, this zone where the air is never still hosts the most diverse collection of seabirds in the world. More than 40 species breed here - that is at least 11 per cent of the entire world's seabird population. This expedition, as featured in Conde Nast Traveler's influential 'The 25 Best Places to Go in 2025' list, and one of a number operated each year by Heritage Expeditions, is the only one to include all of these islands. Video: Stephen Bradley, Heritage Expeditions