Antarctica - Pictures, Facts and Travel

Maybe you've been to Antarctica to work or on a cruise and want to reminisce

Perhaps you haven't been but would love to travel to the Antarctic

Possibly you have no intention of going, but just think Antarctica is a cool place

If you like pictures - we've got stacks of pictures and photographic advice

You may have homework to do so you need facts about Antarctica or its animals

Maybe you're planning an Antarctic cruise or vacation

Find out what you will see, where you'll go and what you need to take in the Antarctica travel guide

Emperor penguin fact file

Whale species

Antarctic Pictures Gallery - The skies can be very clear and it feels like you can see forever in Antarctica some days, it's the windiest and highest continent as well as the coldest

Pictures of Penguins

Antarctic Huskies

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A Solar Pillar, Antarctica produces many atmospheric phenomena, this one is produced by tiny air-borne ice crystals reflecting the sun forming a pillar that moves from side to side with the observer.

Composite image of Antarctica and southern hemisphere, South America (top left), Africa (top right) and Australia / New Zealand (bottom right). The earth could never be viewed in this way as in reality one half of this view would be in daylight and the other in darkness.

Satellite Image of the Aurora Australis, Sept 11th 2005 - Photograph courtesy NASA

Ice sheets contain a record of hundreds of thousands of years of past climate, trapped in the ancient snow. Scientists recover this climate history by drilling cores in the ice, up to 3,500 meters (11,000 feet) deep.

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Ice Breaker Penetrating the Ice Pack - Standish Backus
Watercolor on paper, 1956. Pack ice consists of massed fragments of sea ice drifting with wind and current. The icebreaker Eastwind is represented towing a non ice-strengthened fuel and stores ship YOG-34 through the Ross Sea pack, overhead a helicopter scouts the ice conditions. Picture courtesy The Naval History & Heritage Command - USA

The Erebus glacier comes down the slopes of Mt. Erebus into the sea off the coast of Ross Island as an 11-12 km long ice tongue. It is a serrated, blue-rimmed "knife" extending into the snow and ice-covered McMurdo Sound. The smooth white expanse is the frozeb Southern Ocean. Photograph courtesy  of NASA / GSFC / METI / ERSDAC / JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.