Credits
Photography credits
Every photograph on this site is a real place, credited to the person or company who made it.
Free-licensed photography
Credited beside each image wherever it appears. CC BY-SA images, and any adaptation of them such as type set over the frame, are shared under the same licence.
| Image | Subject | Author | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Powder Mountain, Eden, Utah: sunrise clouds over snow | Eric Kilby | CC BY-SA 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Sailing yacht at anchor off Bodrum, Türkiye, from above | Burak Eroglu | Pexels Licence | www.pexels.com |
 | Three Glaciers Camp near Union Glacier, Antarctica, from the air | Christopher Michel | CC BY 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Mountain gorilla female with baby, Titus Group, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda | Charles J. Sharp | CC BY-SA 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Mustique beach, western side of the island | Stefan Schäfer, Lich | CC BY-SA 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Aerial view of the Okavango Delta, Botswana | Diego Delso | CC BY-SA 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Necker Island: the Great House above the beach and lagoon | Mazzy02 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Axiom Mission 4: Dragon approaching the station above the Indian Ocean, 26 Jun 2025 | NASA Johnson Space Center | Public domain (NASA) | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Monaco harbour on Formula 1 race day, 2016 | 35mmMan | CC BY 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | The Ceremonial South Pole | Eli Duke | CC BY-SA 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Axiom Mission 1: Dragon Endeavour approaching the station at orbital sunset, 9 Apr 2022 | NASA Hq | Public domain (NASA) | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | The Drygalski Mountains, central Neuschwabenland, from the north | Wilfried Bauer | CC BY-SA 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | The southern Drygalski Mountains, Queen Maud Land; Ulvetanna on the right | Wilfried Bauer | CC BY-SA 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Emperor penguin chicks moulting | © François Guerraz | CC BY-SA 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Table Mountain from Blouberg, Cape Town | South African Tourism | CC BY 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
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Operator photography
Test use only. Courtesy of each operator, shown on this private test build. Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch.
| Image | Subject | Author | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Necker Island from the air, BVI | Virgin Limited Edition | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.virginlimitededition.com |
 | Expedition yacht Legend in pack ice, Antarctic Peninsula | Justin Hofman / EYOS Expeditions | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.eyos-expeditions.com |
 | Whichaway Camp sleeping pod interior | White Desert | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | white-desert.com |
 | Cabin view at apogee, Galactic 07 | Virgin Galactic | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | press.virgingalactic.com |
 | Skier in deep powder, Powder Mountain | Powder Mountain | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.powdermountain.com |
 | The Surf Ranch wave, Lemoore, California | Kelly Slater Wave Co | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.kswaveco.com |
 | Charter yacht JOY off a sea-cave beach dinner at sunset | Burgess | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.burgessyachts.com |
 | Four Seasons Private Jet cabin | Four Seasons Private Jet Experience | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | press.fourseasons.com |
 | VSS Unity rocket motor burn, Galactic 02 | Virgin Galactic | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | press.virgingalactic.com |
 | Heli-ski helicopter in the Coast Mountains | Eric Berger / Bella Coola Heli Sports | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.bellacoolaheliskiing.com |
 | Deplar Farm, Troll Peninsula, Iceland, in summer | Eleven Experience | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | elevenexperience.com |
 | Guest submersible from Legend surfacing, Antarctic Peninsula | Christopher Scholey / EYOS Expeditions | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.eyos-expeditions.com |
 | Istanbul Grand Suite salon, Venice Simplon-Orient-Express | Belmond | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.belmond.com |
 | Kwitonda Lodge suite bedroom, Rwanda | Ross Couper / Singita | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | singita.com |
 | Terrace with fire pit and Madison Range view | Yellowstone Club | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.yellowstoneclub.com |
 | Bali Hi clifftop houses at sunset, Necker Island | Virgin Limited Edition | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | www.virginlimitededition.com |
 | Echo Camp sky-pod against the Drygalski Mountains | White Desert | Operator copyright. TEST USE ONLY: replace or license before public launch. | white-desert.com |
Maps, globe and sound
Used in the earlier spoken Antarctica journey (/antarctica/spoken/). The 3D globe loads only when the flight begins.
| What | By | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D globe renderer | CesiumJS, Cesium GS, Inc. | Apache 2.0 | cesium.com (loaded from jsDelivr) |
| Satellite imagery outside Antarctica | EOxCloudless https://cloudless.eox.at by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017) | CC BY 4.0 (2016 layer) | cloudless.eox.at |
| Earth imagery, including Antarctica | NASA Earth Observatory, Blue Marble: Next Generation, served by NASA GIBS | NASA imagery, no copyright restriction; credit requested | earthdata.nasa.gov |
| Base globe | Natural Earth II, bundled with CesiumJS | Public domain | naturalearthdata.com |
| Wind (the film and the flight) | "Howling wind", Tvabutzku1234; filtered, trimmed and looped for this site. Not recorded in Antarctica | CC0 1.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
| The concierge's voice | Your own device's built-in speech voice (Web Speech API); nothing is recorded or sent | n/a | Your browser |
The Antarctic Passage: footage
Real footage only, re-encoded for scroll scrubbing. Where a clip was not filmed where the passage is, the note says so. Operator photographs in the passage (the jet cabin, Echo and Whichaway) are listed under Operator photography above: test use only.
| Clip | By | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plane taking off on a runway, view from a window (Used for the lift-off on phones and slower devices, in place of live 3D) | Mixkit | Mixkit Stock Video Free Licence | mixkit.co |
| Looking at the clouds from a plane window | Mixkit | Mixkit Stock Video Free Licence | mixkit.co |
| Pink sunset seen from a plane window (Not a private jet) | Mixkit | Mixkit Stock Video Free Licence | mixkit.co |
| Aerial view of Cape Town at twilight (Phones and slower devices; desktop flies live 3D) | Pexels contributor | Pexels Licence | www.pexels.com |
| View of giant glaciers at Antarctica | Mikhail Nilov | Pexels Licence | www.pexels.com |
| Union Glacier Blue Ice Runway (A blue-ice runway at Union Glacier, 2010. Not White Desert's runway; cropped and graded) | Alan Arnette | CC BY 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
| Emperor penguin, Coulman Island, Antarctica (Filmed in the Ross Sea, not at Atka Bay; trimmed and graded) | Blagoj Klincharski | CC BY 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
| Emperor penguins – the biggest of all (Trimmed and graded) | Discovering Antarctica | CC BY 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
The Antarctic Passage: sound
| Sound | By | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| City traffic background ambience (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #2930 |
| Jet airplane engine taking off (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #1577 |
| Jet plane hum flying (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #1574 |
| Plane engine hum in the track (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #1572 |
| Airplane seatbelt tone (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #1585 |
| Landing jet flying whoosh (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #1576 |
| Wind blowing ambience (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #2658 |
| Wind cold interior (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #1172 |
| Deep cinematic wind hum (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #1177 |
| Footsteps on the snow (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #539 |
| Dropping ice into a glass (loudness-matched, looped) | Mixkit | Mixkit Sound Effects Free Licence | mixkit.co #2834 |
The Antarctic Passage: maps, depth and the concierge
| What | By | Licence or terms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live 3D lift-off and Cape Town (desktop) | Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles, streamed live, never recorded or stored; data attributions shown on screen | Google Maps Platform terms | developers.google.com |
| 3D renderer | CesiumJS, Cesium GS, Inc. | Apache 2.0 | cesium.com (from jsDelivr) |
| Finding your city | OpenStreetMap Nominatim; elevation from Open-Meteo | ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors; CC BY 4.0 | nominatim.openstreetmap.org · open-meteo.com |
| Depth maps for the parallax stills | Generated on our build machine with Depth Anything V2 Small | Apache 2.0 | huggingface.co |
| The live concierge (face and voice) | Tavus Conversational Video, stock replica "Victor - Office" (phoenix-4.5); the preview portrait is a frame from Tavus' sample video of that replica. Test use only | Tavus terms | tavus.io |
| The scripted voice (when no live call) | Your own device's built-in speech voice | n/a | Your browser |
| Scroll and motion | GSAP and ScrollTrigger (GreenSock); Lenis (darkroom.engineering) | GSAP standard "no charge" licence; MIT | gsap.com · lenis.darkroom.engineering |
Type
Marcellus, Cormorant Garamond and Jost, self-hosted under the SIL Open Font Licence: Marcellus, Cormorant Garamond, Jost.