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Straight from the field: this week's encounters across the Galápagos archipelago. 🐢🌊 📸: Dennis Ballesteros
ALT A large tortoise with a textured shell is eating green grass. Its face is close up, showing details of its rough skin. The surrounding area is lush with greenery.
ALT A small tortoise with a dark, textured shell and pink marks is walking on rocky terrain. The background features earthy tones and a stone surface.
ALT A small bird with yellow-green plumage is perched on a slender branch, wings outstretched against a clear blue sky.
ALT A large cruise ship sails on a calm body of water, surrounded by lush, green hills. The sky is overcast, and the landscape appears serene and untouched.
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Journey alongside a mountaineering legend. 🏔️ In 2027, renowned explorer Peter Hillary will join select #NatGeoLindbladExpeditions voyages to Alaska and Antarctica.
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There are trips you take to unplug, and then there are expeditions that shift how you see the planet. 🌎 💙
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Real-time research at the edge of the ice. 🔬Aboard National Geographic Resolution, the onboard Science Hub serves as a working laboratory for visiting researchers.
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Observing the canopy’s smallest residents. 🐒🍃 Pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys in the world, often weighing just a few ounces, which makes them notoriously difficult to spot in the dense foliage of the Peruvian Amazon.
📸: Jose Maldonado
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Sunbursts and epic views while navigating zodiacs through the fjords of British Columbia, all the way into Princess Louisa Marine Park.
📷: Brady Clarke
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Subsurface encounters with local company. 💙
Snorkeling in the crystal-clear waters of the archipelago often means sharing space with playful Galápagos sea lions—whose underwater agility and curiosity turn every reef exploration into an unforgettable experience.
📷: Felix Reyes
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This #WorldTeachersDay, we’re excited to share that the application for the 2027 #Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship is open!
Applications are open through October 22. Learn more & apply here: nategeoed.org/gtf
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No plates, no utensils, zero hesitation. A sea lion's weekend feast in Southeast Alaska captured by Kayvon Malec on National Geographic Quest.
When researchers like Oxford University conservation professor Tom Hart join expeditions in polar regions, Zodiacs become mobile field stations.
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Expeditions place you front row in the wild Alaskan blue. A harbor seal colony captured by National Geographic Photo Instructor Bryan Holiday, sailing Southeast Alaska on National Geographic Quest.
First breaths on a Galápagos beach. An extraordinary, unscripted moment caught in the field by naturalist Anahí Concari—welcoming a newborn sea lion pup to the shorelines of the archipelago.
A major win for one of the world's rarest birds! The critically endangered Mangrove Finch recently had its most successful breeding season ever, with 20 breeding pairs and 25 fledglings documented in Galápagos—more than triple the number of fledglings recorded the previous year.
Intense sibling rivalry seen on the Alaskan shoreline from the zodiacs. 🥊 While it may look dramatic, sparring is how young bear cubs build the essential social and survival skills needed for adulthood in the wild.
🎥: Rich Reid
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Navigating the open Pacific toward Japan aboard National Geographic Resolution proves the open ocean is anything but empty.
📸: Steve Backus
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A completely different world beneath the ice. 🤿 Golden hour along Greenland's fjords looks spectacular from the deck of National Geographic Endurance, but descending into the subpolar depths brings encounters with massive lion’s mane jellyfish.
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