Whalers Bay is a sheltered harbor, located on Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands. A Norwegian whaling company once extracted oil from the whale carcasses left behind by whaling ships. In the 1912-13 season, Whalers Bay operated 27 catcher boats, 12 floating factories and the land station, processing more than 5000 whales in total. Today, rusty whale oil tanks, abandoned houses and washed-out whale bones represent the most significant whaling remains in Antarctica.

The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named the bay during the fifth French Antarctic expedition (1908-1910). A whaler's cemetery once housed the graves of 45 men, but is now buried under the sand of a mudslide released in 1969 when a volcanic eruption caused the glacier above to melt.

Antarctica: Sailing Expedition with the Bark Europa
A photo book by Jan Erik Waider

Enjoy a selection of 100 large-format photographs that will take you on a journey aboard the tall ship Bark Europa to one of the oldest continents and the last great wilderness on earth: Antarctica.

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