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Some people want to visit every continent, and Antarctica is often one of the last ones on their list due to the difficulty of getting there. You can get to Antarctica by cruise or airplane.
Sailing SV Delos is a YouTube channel that chronicles the travels and adventures of video bloggers aboard the sailing vessel Delos. [2] The boat is owned by Brian Trautman, who sails with his wife Karin Syrén and their daughter Sierra (aka Nugget).
Transport in Antarctica The South Pole Traverse , also called the South Pole Overland Traverse , [ 2 ] is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice [ 3 ] in Antarctica that links McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station , both operated by the National Science Foundation of ...
Gerlache Strait or de Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition , under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache , explored the strait in January and February 1898, naming it for the expedition ship Belgica . [ 1 ]
With sea storms and an unfixable ship, things did not go according to plan on SH Diana’s trip to the world’s southernmost continent, but Mark Stratton recounts how the cruise still ended up ...
Todd Carmichael was born on August 30, 1963, outside Spokane, Washington.He has three sisters. Carmichael completed his first marathon at age 15. His mother eventually moved the family to Spokane's South Hill so that he could attend Joel E. Ferris High School.
Lemaire Channel is a strait off Antarctica, between Kyiv Peninsula in the mainland's Graham Land and Booth Island. Nicknamed "Kodak Gap" by some, it is one of the top tourist destinations in Antarctica; steep cliffs hem in the iceberg -filled passage, which is 11 km (6.8 mi) long and just 600 metres (2,000 ft) wide at its narrowest point.
Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open era due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, but also by land as well. Transportation technologies on a remote area like Antarctica need to be able to deal ...