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It Is No Longer A Dream – You Can Fly Over Antarctica
As the jumbo jet flies a group of tourists over the magnetic South Pole on a one-day excursion, the compass needle wobbles and jumps irregularly. Thousands of yards below your jet, you can see the ice-covered sea, its surface molded into frozen waves by the constant, bitter winds as they sweep unobstructed over the barren [...]
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Treaties Assist in the Protection of Antarctica
The total continent of Antarctica, from its massive mountains to the seas replete with blue whales, emperor penguins and leopard seals, is, by means of international agreement, classified as a wilderness preserve. For the past decade or so, oil drilling and mining have been banned from Antarctica in order to safeguard its natural beauty; this [...]
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The Sprawling Continent of Antarctica
Antarctica, magnificent in its beauty and unmerciful in its brutality, is a land unto itself. Every other continent has spilled the blood of man through war. Even though this continent is much larger than both Europe and American combined, less men have died to natural type causes due to the lack of germs, than they [...]