Backpacking Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. On average, Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents.Since there is little precipitation, except at the coasts, the interior of the continent is technically the largest desert in the world.

So if you are asking your self what there is to do there read Terese’s post on her trip to Antarctica.

Antarctica is like no place else on Earth. Surrounded by Manhattan’s skyscrapers and traffic, I could hardly believe that this city and that frozen continent are on the same planet. Though more tourists are going there than ever before, the numbers are still limited. Around 35,000 people visited Antarctica this year; several thousand of those were on large cruise ships that couldn’t land. The population of our planet is now around 6.7 billion. Few people have ever seen Antarctica, or ever will. Even fewer have ever landed there as I did.