Atlantic Odyssey 2002 index

Atlantic Odyssey 2002 index Atlantic Odyssey 2002 index

Teus Luijendijk

In March/April 2002, my trip mates (the Swedes Hans Ackered, Lennart Falk, Yngve Hareland, Jan-Olov Hedblad and Jan Wendeby) and I were onboard the MS Professor Molchanov , on a trip from Ushuaia, in Southernmost Argentina, back to the Northern hemisphere. Not only was this an opportunity to visit the Antarctic continent, it also meant excellent possibilities to study the Atlantic seabird species. Even more so, as we on the way north visited several of the (sub-)antarctic and tropical Atlantic islands, like South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena and Ascension. The latter was our final destination: from here we took an RAF plane back to Britain, while the ship headed further north, with final destination Vlissingen (The Netherlands).
Before this epic journey, we spent a week in 2 different sites in Argentina. For an overview of this, look here.
During the whole trip I made several hours of video recordings of the birds we observed. The results from the Atlantic Odyssey are presented here as stills taken from these video tapes; just click at the thumbnails to obtain a larger image.

A detailed trip report is available here.


King Penguin	Gentoo Penguin	Adelie Penguin	Chinstrap Penguin

Rockhopper Penguin	Wandering Albatross	possible Amsterdam Albatross	Black-browed Albatross

Shy Albatross	Grey-headed Albatross	Atl. Yellow-nosed Albatross	Sooty Albatross

Light-mantled S. Albatross	Southern Giant Petrel	Northern Giant Petrel	Antarctic Fulmar

Antarctic Petrel	Cape Petrel	Kerguelen Petrel	Great-winged Petrel

Soft-plumaged Petrel	Atlantic Petrel	Blue Petrel	possible Broad-billed Prion

Antarctic Prion	Fairy Prion	White-chinned Petrel	Spectacled Petrel

Grey Petrel	Great Shearwater	Little Shearwater	Wilson's Storm-petrel

Black-bellied Storm-petrel	White-bellied Storm-petrel	Madeiran Storm-petrel	Common Diving Petrel

Red-billed Tropicbird	White-tailed Tropicbird	Masked Booby	Red-footed Booby

Brown Booby	Imperial Shag	Ascension Frigatebird	Cattle Egret

South Georgia Pintail	St. Helena Plover	Snowy Sheathbill	Antarctic Skua

Brown Skua	South polar Skua	Kelp Gull	Antarctic Tern

Brown Noddy	Black Noddy	White Tern	South Georgia Pipit

Java Sparrow

Antarctic Fur Seal	Leopard Seal	Weddell Seal	Southern Elephant Seal

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin	Bottlenose Dolphin	Killer Whale	Humpback Whale

Green Turtle