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On the ship’s navigation table, two nautical charts are laid out. They both show we are passing through waters that haven’t been surveyed. Our captain maintains a safe course using depth soundings. He’s been to the Antarctic many times before, yet has never sailed this particular channel.
Oncoming dusk makes it harder to see, then [...]
The spectacular beauty and intense brutality of Antarctica is unparalleled. It’s the only continent never bloodied by the wars of man. 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 thrive. Now, [...]
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From ice blue waters, the cruise ship’s terribly gashed orange hull rises up like a monument that ends the age of innocence in Antarctica. 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.To date, there is more diesel fuel [...]
Now that she?s seen Antarctica, this ninety-one year old traveler has seen almost every corner of the earth. She saw Antarctica in person, not on television or in a magazine. This was her first sighting of Antarctica, though she?d been to its continent two times prior. She flew over Antarctica, though she never did land. [...]
The southernmost animal that has ever been known to live is the tiny pink mite native to Antarctica/It eats algae and fungi and resembles a spider. An entomologist from a Hawaiian Museum recently discovered the pink mite a mere 309 miles from the South Pole. Amazingly, this same scientist found lichens only 266 miles from [...]
The arrangement of unusual vacation getaways has become a booming business in travel jaded America. US citizens have grown tired of visiting the usual locations like Mexico and Monte Carlo. Caribbean cruises have become a thing of the boring past for experienced travelers. Today’s travelers are looking for something more unusual that offers more excitement. [...]
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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 [...]
