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The bow of the Quark Ultramarine heads toward a mystical half moon rising as the sun slowly fades away around 10:40 p.m. in late January.

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Exploring Antarctica aboard the Quark Ultramarine

The bow of the Quark Ultramarine heads toward a mystical half moon rising as the sun slowly fades away around 10:40 p.m. in late January. Photo Credit: Andrea Zelinski

The bow of the Quark Ultramarine heads toward a mystical half moon rising as the sun slowly fades away around 10:40 p.m. in late January.

An estimated 100,000 pairs of Adelie penguins and their young live on Paulet Island on the east of the Antarctica Sound.

A guest on the Quark Ultramarine walks by a colony of 100,000 pairs of penguins and their chicks on Paulet Island east of the Antarctic Sound.

As seen from a Quark zodiac, Adelie penguins stand atop an iceberg near Paulet Island, home to some 100,000 pairs of mating penguins and their chicks.

Guests on Quark's Ultramarine explore Tay Head by stand-up paddle boards.

A guest on the Quark Ultramarine captures pictures of some of the first icebergs in sign as the ship sails toward Antarctica.

Chinstrap penguins scuffle inland from the black pebble beach at Baily Head, a headland on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

Chinstrap penguins loiter on an iceberg.

A chinstrap penguin stands at Baily Head, a headland in the Antarctic, as thousands of fellow penguins traverse the valley behind him.

Chinstrap penguin chicks might stretch their wings, but they stay near a parent atop a perch overlooking Orne Harbor in Antarctica.

Guests on the Quark Ultramarine paddle to observe collection of chinstrap penguins settled on a stony edge of Orne Harbor.

The Quark Ultramarine sits in Orne Harbor awaiting guests to return from climbing to the top of an overlook to observe chinstrap penguins and their chicks.

The fluke of a humpback whale as seen during a Quark Expeditions cruise in Antarctica in Orne Harbor.

As seen through the lens of a pair of binoculars, a half-moon rises ahead of the bow of the Quark Ultramarine on its way to Antarctica.