News from home and today’s sports scores never are far away on a vacation cruise, unlike the days in decades past when passengers might rush ashore in a foreign port to find an old newspaper for delayed accounts of tragedies and ballgames. Stress free connection on a Caribbean or a Mediterranean is easily accessible from [...]

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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 elephant seals to albatrosses and penguins to icebergs all of these reflect Antarctica. And from its tiny baby fur seals weighing no more than 10 pounds, to mounds of ice weighing 3 million tons and holding 3.3 billion gallons of frozen water, the highest, driest, windiest continent in the world lives up to all [...]

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Drake’s passage is the foreboding gatekeeper that divides the last bit of south America from the Antarctic continent. That 400 mile stretch of water has some of the worst reported sea weather in the world, ad is a place where no speck of land big or small could cause the currents a moment’s pause in [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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Anyplace is a good location to go to for most. Efforts were made by a businessman and brainstormer to arrange the first charter flight to go over Antarctica and this became a reality in February 13, 1877 after much consideration of this attitude of travelers. A lively electronics executive who was 33 years old thought [...]

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