Visitors at Palmer Station

Visitors at Palmer Station

Though it's hard to believe, we do receive visitors here at Palmer Station.  Summertime draws about 8,000 tourists to the Antarctic Peninsula each year.  Only about 1,500 people actually visit Palmer Station, arriving on various  ships and yachts.    

This Palmer Station sign displays the distance and direction of the other US research stations.   We are 1744 miles from the South Pole!  

Station Tours

The passengers of the Ocean Nova cruise ship recently toured the station.  The scientists meet the passengers and answer questions about their research.  

 
Bark Europa

When the Bark Europa visited, we were able to tour their incredible ship and meet with passengers at the station.

We are the Visitors

Some ships are too large to visit the station.  So we visit them on board!  Here is the Veendam cruise ship.

The Drifting Visitor

One day we woke up to a giant visitor in our harbor.  Check out this iceberg that visited the station for about a week in early January.

Animals Visit Us Too!

Below is a video I made of an elephant seal crawling onto shore at the station.  He stayed in the area for about two days.