Planning a trip to Antarctica? As someone who has been there quite a few times, I have some advice: Read up on it before you go.
The world's most remote and hard-to-reach continent will be like nothing you've ever seen — and takes context to fully understand.
Home to improbably large ice shelves, enormous glaciers, soaring mountains and some of the world's most unusual wildlife, it's a wintry wonderland that defies the senses. It's also the setting for some of the most epic adventure tales of all time. Plus, it's a hub for important scientific research, including serious study of the Earth's changing climate.
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