East of Ushuaia, Argentina lie the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island. It is here one walks among several varieties of penguins and birds including the pipit which is the one song bird in the region. The islands hug both sides of the Antarctic Convergence and unlike the Antarctic continent are carpeted in low growing green plants. Here one finds a rookery of Rockhopper penguins living among the nesting ground of albatross. It really is the place to begin one's journey to Antarctica.