The last person I heard who had done it was Benka Pulko, many moons ago.
I asked when I was in Ushuaia in Jan/Feb 2016 about taking my bike to Antarctica on a cruise ship but was told because of the fragile ecosystem there it wasn't possible. Even as a walking tourist you get given footwear by the ship to wear and it gets cleaned/disinfected prior to setting foot on the beach/rocks/ice.
I also spoke to a sailboat captain who did tours there who said he would take a bike, strapped to the mast. I wouldn't want my bike on the deck of a sailboat across the Drake Passage and back just for the sake of a photo.
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