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Penguins are One of the Main Reasons to Visit Antarctica

Penguins, those diminutive seabirds waddling about forever in their formalwear. Seeing them in the wild in abundance is am...

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Antarctica Travel Guide

Tourism in Antarctica started in the 1950’s with 500 lonely soles traveling from Chile and Argentina. These days, about 40...

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Q&A with Travel Photographer Dean Tatooles

Dean Tatooles is an amazingly talented photographer and an iExplore customer. He joined iExplore on an Antarctica excursio...

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The Icy Truth about a Trip to Antarctica

Good little girls and boys send letters to the North Pole asking Santa to fulfill their deepest desires, but what about th...

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Advocates for Travel to the Polar Region

Thankfully the incredible wilderness and natural environment that is Antarctica is protected by international law and the work of a number of organizations. Much research is done to fund wildlife preservation projects, assess the impact of humans on ecosystems and raise money to preserve historic remains and stories of polar exploration.

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An Insider’s Look at a Scientific Research Station in Antarctica

Every year groups of biologists, geologists, oceanographers, physicists, astronomers, glaciologists, meteorologists and ot...

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The Greatest Polar Explorer of All Time

We’ve all seen that grainy black and white footage of the great Antarctic expeditions - men in seemingly inadequate gear o...

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The Ultimate Guide to Planning a Trip To the White Continent

So you’ve decided you want to go to the white continent, one of the remotest and coldest places on earth. You know it’s bu...