Tourists board Zodiac boats to explore Chilean Tierra del Fuego's Garibaldi Fjord. The fjord was cut by the retreating Garibaldi Glacier, a towering wall of ice descending from the Darwin Range.
Stark, cold, wet, and windy, Patagonia is home to unique creatures with adaptations that help them thrive in an unforgiving region of climatic extremes.
Get a glimpse of paradise with this gallery of photographs taken on assignment for the National Geographic magazine article "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course."