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Lemaire Channel and Cape Renard, Antarctic Peninsula

Cape Renard and Una Peaks, Lemaire Channel, Antarctica. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

The Lemaire Channel is considered one of the most scenic places of the Antarctic Peninsula. For the beauty of its landscape which consists of snow-capped peaks, glaciers, icebergs and rocky cliffs has become one of the main tourist destinations of ...

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The Danco Coast along the Antarctic Peninsula

Danco Coast, Antarctica. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

The Danco Coast is the northwestern section of the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula located between 64 ° and 65 ° South. This stretch of Antarctica coast which is part of Graham Land is bordered to the north by Cape ...

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Bouvet: A Norwegian island between Africa and Antarctica

In the South Atlantic Ocean there is a small volcanic island, almost entirely covered by ice: The island of Bouvet. This island is located approximately 2,500 km southwest of Southern Africa. At 4,200 east of Cape Horn, the extreme strip ...

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The Palmer Archipelago: a group of islands off Antarctica

Port Lockroy, Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

The Palmer archipelago is a group of mountainous islands located off the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The straits of Gerlache and Bismarck separate the archipelago from the coast of the Antarctic continent, which in this area is called ...

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Antarctic Sound and Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

Hope Bay (Bahía Esperanza), Antarctic Sound, Antarctica. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

Antarctic Sound is a body of water located at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula at a latitude of about 63 ° south. This arm of ocean separates the Trinity Peninsula from the Joinville, D’Urville, Dundee islands and the ...

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Go to Antarctica: tourism today in Antarctica

The seventh continent, Antarctica, was the last continent on the planet to be discovered and explored by man. In the past, this undiscovered land was described as the “Terra Australis Incognita”. It was thought that there was a huge continent ...

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Climate of the Antarctic Peninsula: when to go to Antarctica

Cape Renard and Una Peaks, Lemaire Channel, Antarctica. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost section of the Antarctic continent, it extends to a latitude between 63 ° S and 74 ° S, because of this this peninsula has the mildest climate of the entire Antarctic continent. In particular, ...

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The climate of Antarctica: when to go to Antarctica

Icebergs, Antarctica. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini.

Antarctica is known as the ice continent. The climate of Antarctica is the most inhospitable of planet Earth. In this continent there are no cities or inhabited centers but the only human settlements are scientific bases. Antarctica is on average ...

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Cruise to Antarctica: Traveling with children

Andrea and Mattia in Antarctica. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

Sometimes traveling with small children in tow is a problem for parents who are seen to face all sorts of doubts and problems related to the costs, destinations, and medicines to take and organize a trip with children. These problems ...

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