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

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...

So you’ve decided you want to go to the white continent, one of the remotest and coldest places on earth. You know it’s buried under one mile of ice, has no trees and that the temperature is mostly...

It’s hard to imagine a place more hostile to life than Antarctica. Temperatures are always below zero, the land is buried beneath at least a mile of ice and terrible storms scour the landscape cons...

If you really want to get well versed on the white continent there are a number of books you can read. Actually, as any adventure to Antarctica can take up to several weeks, you might be glad of so...

The Drake Passage is a body of water between Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Passengers often dread it because its rough seas can dislodge furniture, footsteps and ev...