Beagle Channel Glacier Alley, Chile Patagonia
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ms Nieuw Amsterdam
11 Cruises
| 7 October | 41 days | One-way from Vancouver to Buenos Aires |
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ms Nieuw Statendam
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| 7 October | 41 days | One-way from Vancouver to Buenos Aires |
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| 12 October | 36 days | One-way from San Diego to Buenos Aires |
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Viking Polaris
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| 26 February | 42 days | One-way from Buenos Aires to Fort Lauderdale |
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| 28 March | 14 days | One-way from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso-Santiago |
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| 29 March | 12 days | One-way from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso-Santiago |
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. The Beagle Channel is a scenic cruising day: no terminal, no excursions, no gangway lowered. The show comes to the ship, and a warm coat plus a spot on deck is all you need to enjoy it fully.
A run of glaciers descending from the Darwin Cordillera icefield along the channel's northwest arm. Cartographers named them after European countries: Alemania, Francia, Holanda, Italia, Romanche. Captains usually slow down in front of each one.
Often early in the morning. The daily programme gives the timing the night before: set an alarm accordingly, even if you go back to sleep afterward. Sleeping through the passage is this day's classic regret.
In layers, with a windbreaker, hat and gloves. The southern wind bites even in midsummer. The best approach is alternating between the open deck and the glassed-in lounges with a hot drink in hand.
After the British ship that surveyed it between 1826 and 1830, later returning with a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. He recorded the violence of the winds and the beauty of the ice in his notebooks; nothing has changed since.
Yes, especially with binoculars: albatrosses and petrels in the wake, sea lion colonies on the rocks, sometimes a whale's blow. The naked eye barely catches what binoculars reveal, so bring a pair if you have one.
Yes, provided you stay outside. Southern light shifts minute by minute: better to be on deck through the narrow passages than to wait for the perfect shot behind a window, where reflections spoil most images.
Sometimes, and it is striking. The ice fronts fall from walls that top 300 metres in places. When a slab breaks away, the rumble rolls across the water several seconds after the fall, and everyone falls silent.
Almost no one today: no roads, no visible human trace. Yet these shores were home for millennia to the Yagan people, who moved by canoe between the islands, keeping a fire burning on board against the cold.
Many travellers rank it as the high point of their South American cruise. You expect a routine sea day and instead cross one of the planet's last great untouched landscapes. The Beagle Channel is not visited: it is watched.
