The coolest destination on Earth, literally, Antarctica is the last great wilderness.

  It was dark. I mean really, really dark, like being deep in a forest on a cloudy, moonless night. I am quite used to poor visibility while diving, but this was different. The glacier around the c...

After his ship Endurance became trapped in Antarctic ice and sank, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed from the continent to South Georgia in a lifeboat and then crossed the island on foot to reach a whal...

Antarctica is a place of extraordinary natural beauty that calls to many travelers. It is arguably the world’s last great wilderness, providing travelers with a unique opportunity to experience gen...

Penguins, those diminutive seabirds waddling about forever in their formalwear. Seeing them in the wild in abundance is among the top reasons to visit Antarctica.  There are 17 species of penguins ...

Tourism in Antarctica started in the 1950’s with 500 lonely soles traveling from Chile and Argentina. These days, about 40,000 people a year make the trek to the natural, unspoiled beauty of the wo...

Dean Tatooles is an amazingly talented photographer and an iExplore customer. He joined iExplore on an Antarctica excursion last winter and was kind enough to share some of his photographs from his...

Good little girls and boys send letters to the North Pole asking Santa to fulfill their deepest desires, but what about the South Pole? Did you know Antarctica is the only continent which has no sp...

Thankfully the incredible wilderness and natural environment that is Antarctica is protected by international law and the work of a number of organizations. Much research is done to fund wildlife p...

Every year groups of biologists, geologists, oceanographers, physicists, astronomers, glaciologists, meteorologists and others head to Antarctica to conduct research. Work with microscopes, ice axe...