Antarctica - Pictures, Facts, History 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 to travel to Antarctica on a cruise

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

High Arctic Pictures
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Nacreous clouds above McMurdo Base, McMurdo Sound - Picture courtesy Alan Light

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.

Aurora Australis From Space May 24th 2010 - Photograph courtesy Johnson Space Center/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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The Antarctic Shrine - Standish Backus
Sir Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1907 hut at Cape Royds, Ross Island. Units of Task Force 43 may be seen several miles off Cape Royds fighting their way through frozen McMurdo Sound behind an icebreaker toward the base at Hut Point. In the background mountains fifty miles away in Victoria Land are pictured. 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 frozen Southern Ocean. Photograph courtesy  of NASA / GSFC / METI / ERSDAC / JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.