Tag Archives: Antarctica Travel

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! Recently more and more individuals have discovered the frozen, windy southern continent. School children may read about Antarctica in their books, but the rest of us seem to have forgotten this continent. Continue reading →

Years of working in the Trans Alaska Pipeline, the Atigun Pass to be specific, has made this gentleman like the snow and cold very much. So this gentleman, a retired civil engineer, shivered with delight upon hearing about the plan that the local university’s alumni association was brewing up, specifically about an Antarctic expedition. I thought that it was such a spectacular thought. Even as Antarctica holds the title of being the coldest and least hospitable place on Earth, more and more voyagers aim to venture it, even the armchair kind of travelers. Continue reading →

People are not as picky and will travel anywhere. Taking this into consideration, there was a businessman and brainstormer from Australia who decided to arrange a charter flight headed for the Antarctic and this happened on February 13, 1877 which was the first one of its kind. As he was looking at a map one morning, this active 33 year old electronic executive thought to himself why a regular plane cannot accomplish a trip to Antarctica that returns to Sydney on the same day. Continue reading →

You cannot help but be stunned by the sheer volume as these three feet high, tuxedo wearing birds slip and slide their way around their mud caked rookery, with well over 100 thousand of them it’s not the sort of thing you tend to forget. Continue reading →