Most part of November I spent on the 72 meter long Russian Vessel "Spirit of Enderby". The real name is Professor Khromov and it has an all Russian crew consisting of 22 persons. The ship is now run by The New Zealand Company "Heritage Expiditions" from Christchurch making ocean trips all around the world. We travelled 2600 nautical miles south from New Zealand starting in Invercargill and ending in Dunedin.

The Subantarctic Islands are tiny havens for some of the most abundant and unique wildlife on the planet. They lie in the cool temperate or Subantarctic Zone to the south and east of New Zealand in the great southern ocean that encircles Antarctica. This is a windswept and at times forbidding swath of sea, surprising in its fecundity.

The Subantarctic Islands are comprised of six groups: the Bounty Islands, the Antipodes, the Snares, the Auckland Islands, Campbell Island and Macquarie Island. Flora and fauna are densely concentrated here: the number of indigenous plants and seabirds found in the Subantarctic Islands is far greater than that found on similar groups in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans.