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Your cruise ship takes you to our planet's most inaccessible continent.
Sightseeing highlights include iceberg calvings, penguin colonies, and the
Lemaire Channel.
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Icebergs are calved when they break off an ice shelf's face. Sometimes the
separated piece is so enormous that it creates a Herculean sound and tidal wave.
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Some have populations numbering in the hundreds of thousands. They are located
around the continent's coastline, including in the area visited by cruise ships.
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Cameras aboard cruise ships click frequently when the vessels travel through
the incredibly stunning Lemaire Channel and Neumayer Channel on the Antarctica
Peninsula.
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This island is a popular cruise ship stop because of its unique caldera bay
harbor and the opportunity to bath in outdoor thermal heated water in the cold
climes.
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It has hardly rained in the last two million years in the area named the Dry
Valleys. Result: A waterless desert on a continent famously known for its thick
ice sheet.
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Tall pointed mountains shaped like tiger teeth jut out of the Polar Icecap.
They are now challenging adventure climbers.
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Some travelers call it the most beautiful place of the continent because of its
serene character.
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Roughly two-thirds of our planets fresh water resides in the Polar Icecap. That
sheet of ice is extraordinarily thick and covers 98% of the continent.
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By definition, an ice shelf is a thick sheet of ice that is attached to land but
reaches far out to sea. The Ross Ice Shelf - the earth's largest - is as large
as France.
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One of the most remote travel destinations is the South Pole. It is the world's
southernmost point. Getting there is expensive and sometimes risky.
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