The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica and lay claim, but no one owns it.

Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on ...

Fourteen countries already operate from Punta Arenas as the jumping point to Antarctica, and “the intensity of this activity can be expected to grow significantly as Antarctic scientific ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted ...

Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica ...