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. Images are cropped and resized to fit each frame. Where a photograph shows a place near the one named, rather than the place itself, its subject says so. CC BY-SA images, and any adaptation of them such as a crop or 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 |
 | Necker Island, British Virgin Islands, from the air | giggel | CC BY 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | An expedition ship in Pléneau Bay, Antarctic Peninsula (MS Expedition, not the yacht Legend) | Liam Quinn from Canada | CC BY-SA 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Union Glacier Camp, Antarctica (not a White Desert camp) | Christopher Michel | CC BY 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Earth from the Cupola of the International Space Station (NASA; not a Virgin Galactic cabin) | NASA/Scott Kelly | Public domain (NASA) | 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 |
 | Powder skiing above Chamonix, France (not Powder Mountain) | Webwizzard | 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 |
 | A surfer on a wave in Italy (not the Surf Ranch) | Francesco Canu | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 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 |
 | A yacht at anchor off Saranda, Albania (not a Burgess yacht) | BBB2021 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Private jet cabin, Hawker 4000 (not the Four Seasons jet) | JetRequest.com | CC BY-SA 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | WhiteKnightTwo carrying SpaceShipTwo in flight | Jeff Foust | CC BY 2.0 | 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 |
 | Heli-skiing in the Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia (not Bella Coola) | cjuneau | CC BY 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Fljót, Troll Peninsula, north Iceland, where Deplar Farm stands (not the farm itself) | Navaro | CC BY-SA 3.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Iceberg in Paradise Harbour, Antarctic Peninsula | Liam Quinn from Canada | CC BY-SA 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Monaco harbour on Formula 1 race day, 2016 | 35mmMan | CC BY 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | A Venice Simplon-Orient-Express sleeping car at the platform | Øyvind Holmstad | CC BY-SA 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | The Ceremonial South Pole | Eli Duke | CC BY-SA 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda (the view near the lodges; not a suite) | Nina R | CC BY 2.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Sphinx Mountain, Madison Range, Montana (not the Yellowstone Club) | Mike Cline | CC BY-SA 4.0 | commons.wikimedia.org |
 | Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands (near Necker; not Necker itself) | Kevin Stroup | CC BY 3.0 | 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 |
 | Field camp in the Petermann Ranges, Queen Maud Land (near where Echo stands; not Echo itself) | 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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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. The still photographs in the passage (a private jet cabin, a field camp in Queen Maud Land and Union Glacier Camp) are listed with the photographs above. They stand in for the Four Seasons jet and White Desert's camps, and are not those places.
| 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 |
The Windows: footage
All real footage, none AI-generated.
| Clip | By | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breathtaking aerial view of cloudscape sky (the wheels-up window on the welcome page and in the films; location not stated) | 小小 兵 | Pexels Licence | pexels.com |
| Mountain gorilla eating, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda (film) (window: Forest & Delta. A mountain gorilla filmed in Bwindi, Uganda (the same population that ranges the Virungas).) | Giles Laurent | CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) | source |
| Sailing yacht bow at sea (window: Riviera. A yacht's bow at sea: location not stated; shown to evoke the charter.) | Pavel Danilyuk | Pexels Licence (free for commercial use) | source |
| Phantom Jellyfish Off of the Melchior Islands (film, 17 Dec 2023) (window: Beneath the Ice. A phantom jellyfish about 100 m down off the Melchior Islands, Antarctic Peninsula; not filmed from Legend's submarine.) | MasterfulNerd | CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) | source |
| Earth Illuminated: ISS time-lapse photography (window: Edge of Space. Earth from the International Space Station, which orbits far higher than a Virgin Galactic flight; shown to evoke the view.) | NASA Johnson | Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) | source |
| View of giant glaciers at Antarctica (window: Antarctic Passage. Antarctic ice cliffs from the water: exact location not stated by the filmmaker.) | Mikhail Nilov | Pexels Licence (free for commercial use) | source |
| Aerial view of Namibian sand dunes (window: Skeleton Coast. Dunes of the Namib, Namibia: not the Skeleton Coast itself.) | Anton Lukin | Pexels Licence (free for commercial use) | source |
| Close-up of a fishing rod on a motor boat (window: Black Marlin. A rod and reel off a boat's stern: location not stated; not Tropic Star Lodge.) | ArtHouse Studio | Pexels Licence (free for commercial use) | source |
| Scenic tropical island, aerial view (window: Necker Island. The British Virgin Islands, as tagged by the filmmaker; not Necker Island itself.) | Dorian Hodge | Pexels Licence (free for commercial use) | source |
| Une plage à Miami Beach (Floride) en février 2022 (film) (window: Miami, Unlimited. Miami Beach, February 2022.) | Benoît Prieur | CC0 (Wikimedia Commons) | source |
Type
Marcellus, Cormorant Garamond and Jost, self-hosted under the SIL Open Font Licence: Marcellus, Cormorant Garamond, Jost.