The initial person to land on the Antarctic Peninsula was John Davis, the captain of a seal-hunting vessel that arrived at Hughes Bay in 1821. It was one more 77 years before the initial scientific expedition spent a winter on the frozen continent. In 1911, Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott both led small exploration teams [...]
Once the central part of a tropical supercontinent, Antarctica is now the world’s coldest continent – a polar desert almost completely covered with a permanent layer of ice.
In the winter, Antarctica’s interior is cloaked in constant darkness. Freezing winds rage at up to 320km/h and also the temperature has been known to drop as low [...]
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