Antarctica (with the name coming from Anti Arctic or Anti North), on an average is the coldest (lowest measured temperature on earth of -89.2 degree Celsius), driest and windiest of continents. Most of the Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet with an average thickness of 1.9 km (yes - you read it right -...
Did you know that Antarctica was the last place on this planet to be discovered? That too, by chance, when a Russian expedition saw the Fimbul ice shelf in 1820. The first confirmed landing on the continent was by a Norwegian team in 1895. That was the beginning of Antarctica travel. Of course, then there was...
Antarctica & its seals have much in common - both are full of mystery and as alluring as forbidding. The seals of Antarctica are as much a draw for the curious traveler as the penguins. Let’s look at some of them…