If you have found yourself bored with all the usual vacation choices such as Rome, the Bahamas, Paris, Canada, Mexico, Maldives, or wherever, consider the perfect vacation for new sights and excitement: Antarctica! And in recent history, a unexpectedly large number of people have started to discover the hidden charms of the cold and dark [...]

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Reminiscent of the symbol of Antarctica’s age of innocence’s death, the cruise liner’s badly gashed orange hull rose from the deep, icy waters. Upon the overturned vessels, penguins perch calmly oblivious to the danger found in the thin oily layer glistening around. The tens of thousands of diesel fuel gallons that poured through the shipwreck [...]

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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’re constantly cleaning themselves, getting angry with other penguins who get in their nests, and sending off seals who aren’t invited. Their babies, [...]

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As per international treaties, Antarctica as a continent is protected from harm and is considered a wilderness preserve, so that all of the emperor penguins, blue whales, and every other bit of wildlife is protected.For the past decade or so, oil drilling and mining have been banned from Antarctica in order to safeguard its natural [...]

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Throughout Antarctica, nations with economies that were dependent on whaling claimed ownership of large parts of the continent.Britain, Argentina and Chile all laid claim to large sections of Antarctica, and some of those claims overlap.There are also claims from Australia, New Zealand, France, and Norway. The greatest example of nationalism came in 1940 when planes [...]

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It was only a hundred years ago that the first wailing ship, called the Antarctic, landed off the coast of this wind-battered, volcanic coast and sent a part on a longboat through the rough Ross Sea to explore the shore and surrounding area.On January 24, 1985, this landing group, led by Captain Leonard Kristensen, was [...]

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Dallas, USA and the South Pole have something in common – they both will probably have 100 degree temperatures in July.However, the difference between the two is that you experience negative 100 degrees at the South Pole.Colder than any deep-freezer, this temperature can instantly freeze any exposed skin in mere seconds. There are 28 people [...]

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