Category: Antarctica
By Joann Deutch [Read Part I of An Antarctic Adventure series here.] Antarctica, the 7th continent, is a land mass the size of Europe and the United States combined, an improbable desert beneath ice, and inaccessible outside a small window…
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The m/v Sea Spirit on a voyage to Antarctica Photo courtesy of Poseidon Expeditions
By Joann Deutch It’s been my dream to get to the Antarctic for several years now. I was bowled over by my trip to Tromso, a city above the Arctic Circle in Norway, and it only made sense to me…
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The tiny airport of Ushuaia, Argentina