A panorama taken at midnight under moonlight and twilight.
This is the darkest it will get tonight. The sun is 9-degrees below the horizon, but the full moon is 15-degrees up and illuminates distant icebergs and mountains.
We are entering civil twilight, but it will be a long gradual transition. The sun won't actually show at the horizon for another hour and a half.
Today's stops are 8 and 9: Deception Island and Half Moon Island.
Deception Island, the caldera of a still-active volcano.
We enter the gateway of Deception Island,
Video: A seal heads for the water
The remains of a whale oil tank at this former whaling village.
Inside the rim of the volcano.
Oil storage tanks.
Approaching Half Moon Island
The penguin colony is at the top of the hill because that was the safest location when the snow started to melt at the beginning of the season.
Our last Zodiac landing for this trip.
We meet another colony of Chinstrap penguins.
Video: Penguin rock-hopping skills
