If you are tired of the usual vacation destinations like Canada and Mexico, come see Antarctica. Many people have been visiting Antarctica recently. It’s sometimes referred to as the cold, dark continent down under. School children may read about Antarctica in their books, but the rest of us seem to have forgotten this [...]

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Seventy thousand birds call this one-square-mile area home. They may only measure thigh-high to me, but they have a much taller attitude as they waddle, slip and slide in their rocky abode.

They must shoo away neighbors who get to close to their pebble nests, as well as chase off the seals and skuas who [...]

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In all parts of Antarctica, countries whose primary industry is whaling, claimed large portions of land.Britain, Argentina and Chile all laid claim to large sections of Antarctica, and some of those claims overlap.France, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia are also know to have made claims on this continent.
In 1940, the Nazis in Germany ordered airplanes [...]

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