www.AntarcticGuide.com http://london.stepbystep.com/how-to-get-antarctica-tourist-visit-visa-from-london-6778/ Step by Step How to Get Antarctica Tourist Visit Visa From London By jimstuart February 21st, 2012 Antarctica is the southern most continent on the planet and has no human inhabitants. The only people that do reside temporarily on the frozen landscape are located in the research stations setup by different countries for […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://en.mercopress.com/2011/12/31/a-malvinas-war-veteran-dies-in-an-attempt-to-cross-to-the-falklands-in-a-kayak Saturday, December 31st 2011 – 18:43 UTC A Malvinas war veteran dies in an attempt to cross to the Falklands in a kayak A Malvinas war veteran drowned in an attempt to reach the Falkland Islands in a kayak from Ushuaia while his companion was rescued by an Argentine Navy patrol and is […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/20/sean-penn-and-me Sean Penn and Me By H. W. CROCKER, III on 2.20.12 @ 6:07AM Guess which one doesn’t know much about history. I know I shouldn’t, but I always feel a sense of personal responsibility when Sean Penn says something stupid. You see, it was my father who taught him history — or at […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/9540274.Polar_exploration_book_expected_to_fetch___20_000_at_auction/ Polar exploration book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard expected to fetch £20,000 at auction 5:09pm Sunday 19th February 2012 in A rare first edition copy of the most famous book about Polar exploration written by a wealthy Wheathampstead explorer and signed and presented to Scott of the Antarctic’s widow, is set to fetch between £15,000 […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.penguin-news.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=260:argentina-claims-falklands-rig-in-argentine-waters Argentina claims Falklands rig in Argentine waters CreatedSunday, 19 February 2012 ARGENTINE newspaper Ambito Financiero has claimed exploration rig Leiv Eiriksson, contracted by two oil companies to drill to the south of the Falkland Islands, “was found, on Thursday, exploring in Argentine waters”, according to ‘irrefutable’ satellite images. mercopress.com reported that oil industry […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/which-bird-migrates-the-farthest Which bird migrates the farthest? Over its lifetime of about 25 years, an Arctic Tern can fly a million kilometers – nearly three times the distance from the Earth to the moon. The Arctic Tern breeds on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in northern hemisphere summer. And it feeds over the oceans […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=39919 Satellites Track Health of Seal, Penguin Populations in Antarctica • Source: The Antarctic Sun • Posted Saturday, February 18, 2012 A satellite image shows chinstrap penguin colonies at Baily Head, Deception Island, in 2003. The white patches are the colonies. Researchers are using high-resolution imagery shot from satellites to find, count and assess […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com Impromptu antarctic adventurer in the gun By John Weekes 6:27 AM Sunday Feb 19, 2012 Busby Noble, the impromptu crewmate on Norwegian adventurer Jarle Andhoy’s illicit trip to Antarctica, faces two grillings when he returns – from authorities and his girlfriend of 20 years, T.P. Teiho. And Teiho already has harsh words for entrepreneur […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com February 16, 2012 COLONIALISM AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS Posted by Jon Michaud Lauren Collins writes from London that the British are in an uproar over remarks that Sean Penn made about the deployment of Prince William to the Falkland Islands. “The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to […]