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Nothing is comparable to the beauty of Antarctica, as well as its brutality. The many wars of man has never bloodied this land. However, more men have died on this continent, which is much bigger than Europe and America combined, via violent deaths than natural, as the merciless, perpetual cold barely even allows germs to [...]
A monument that heralded Antarctica’s age of innocence’s demise, the badly gashed orange hull of a cruise liner lifts from the chilling blue waters. Penguins are surrounded with danger from the sheen of oil in the water but they perch atop the vessel that has sunken without any fear.Most of the tens of thousands of [...]
One woman has always attested to her dislike for cold weather but still she managed to travel to Antarctica on two separate occasions even if she was the least likely person expected to embark on such a trip. What she wants is to be able to travel again to this place. No other continent was [...]
Two maritime charts draped across the navigation table.Both charts show these waters have yet to be surveyed. The captain keeps us on a cautious course using depth soundings. He may be a seasoned Antarctic sailor, but he’s never sailed this channel before today.
A wet snow starts to fall as dusk settles in. Visibility [...]
Imagine 140,000 penguins across a full square mile of Antarctic land : an entire world of birds that reach your thigh, perfectly dressed in feathery formalwear, busily shuffling across the rocks and mud.
The penguins fill their days with protecting their nests, which they?ve made of pebbles, and their chicks from such dangers as seals and [...]
If you are tired of the usual vacation destinations like Canada and Mexico, come see Antarctica. More and more tourists have come to the frigid continent in the past few years. Though we seem to have forgotten about Antarctica, most school children have studied it.
Tourists coming from New York can choose to [...]
The mountains, seas filled with blue whales, emperor penguins and leopard seals of Antarctica are all protected to preserve wildlife with an international agreement.This coldest and most pristine of the world’s ecosystems has been protected since 1998. Oil drilling is banned for at least 50 years. Conservation is emphasized over development interests. Very few [...]
Nations around the world started claiming large chunks of Antarctica for whaling purposes.Land on the Peninsula has been claimed by Chili, Argentina, and Britain.France, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia are also know to have made claims on this continent.
In 1940, with nationalism running high, Nazi Germany dropped swastika-engraved stakes by plane, claiming large sections of [...]
As vicious as it is brutal, Antarctica is a unique gem.It is the only continent of Earth unsoiled by the wars of man.However, even though Antarctica encompasses a larger area than the United States and Europe together, violent deaths are more common that those by natural causes, as the temperatures are too low to accommodate [...]
It was over a century ago when a whaling ship called the ‘Antarctic’ found itself anchored along the arctic, volcanic coast in the Ross Sea. It sent a longboat to shore.On January 24, 1895, in their quest to travel to unknown seas with the purpose of slaughtering whales, a landing group, led by Captain Leonard [...]
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