Its frozen rivers, subglacial lakes, desolate plateaux, and majestic mountains, make it a continent like no other. It holds 90% of all the ice on the planet and approximately 70% of all fresh water. The sheer immensity of its ice sheet is staggering and sufficient to deform the planet – should it melt, sea levels will rise above major cities. Welcome to Antarctica.
Across the centuries this " terra australis nondum cognita" has captured the imagination of navigators, polar explorers, and aviators from Captain Cook, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Douglas Mawson, to Robert Byrd. Their perilous journeys to the ends of the earth brought back stunning scientific discoveries and showed the danger and utter cruelty of this extreme environment. Retracing their footsteps, Globe Trekker Zay Harding sets sail on a quest to explore the ultimate symbol of the natural world and last true remaining wilderness. |
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