The Expedition: An Arduous South Pole Quest
Antarctica: American couple Chris and Marty Fagan took up a quest to ski to the South Pole, a 750-mile frigid excursion, with no assistance.
Antarctica
GoNOMAD Travel articles about Antarctica.
Antarctica: Nothing Else Comes Close
A Silverseas cruise to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island, and Antarctica is a bucket list come true. Icebergs, king penguins, baby seals, oh my!
Cruising the Beautiful Sea to Antarctica
Antarctica is a continent is filled with mysteriously untouched ground waiting to be discovered and nothing gets you closer than an Antarctica cruise.
Expedition Cruises: Going Where the Big Ships Cannot Go
Expedition-style cruises on small vessels to places like Antarctica or Alaska focus on exploration without a lot of distractions.
Call of the Wild in Cape Horn
Cruising from Cape Horn to Antarctica on an Australis Cruise, adjusting to having no internet connections and bonding over penguins, icebergs and a comfy ship.
Antarctica: A Model of International Cooperation
Preserving Antarctica’s Pristine Landscapes By Stephen Hartshorne GoNOMAD Associate Editor People who have toured Antarctica describe it as a life-changing experience — an unspoiled continent unlike any other. “There is no place on Earth like Antarctica,” says Kassandra Magruder of Adventure Life in Missoula, Montana, which operates many different Antarctic tours. “What makes it so […]
Antarctica: A Sensory Overload!
Three travelers provide useful information about Quark Expeditions on what to bring, how cold it is, and why they loved Antarctica.
Lee Abbamonte: The World’s Most Traveled Person
Lee Abbamonte, the world’s most traveled person, talks about all the places he has gone, to every country in the world, and he did it before he turned 30.
Twice Around the World aboard the Yacht Scorpius
Twice Around the World Aboard the Yacht Scorpius By Katerina Golovina The navigation map of Antarctica covers a table in the cozy cabin of the yacht “Scorpius.” One of the crew, Alexei, shows me the route: his finger slides all down south from Europe till the ices of Antarctica, makes a circle around the coldest […]
Way, Way Down Under: An Antarctic Safari
Way, Way Down Under: An Antarctic Safari By Bruce Northam Penguins are happier than clams. Now I know why. Antarctica is a frozen otherworld safari without borders. A (Quark Expeditions) Russian icebreaker introduced me to the earth’s overwhelming polar underside: stadium-sized, sculpted blue and green icebergs drifting past thundering, skyscraper-height glaciers calving over jagged, rock […]
Way, Way Down Under – Page Two
The black pebble beach An Antarctic Safari – Page Two By Bruce Northam On another solo excursion, hiking for hours along a 100-foot wide, black pebble beach sandwiched between a soupy bay of iceberg bits and a half mile-high glacier, another penguin theme materialized. Antarctic shores are littered with whalebones, the disturbing legacy of a […]
Way, Way Down Under: Antarctica
An Antarctic Safari – Page Three By Bruce Northam So walk, bike, carpool, recycle, don’t spray aerosol, and visit Antarctica when you can, because it all starts with you. It takes a while to adopt an Antarctic way of thinking. It’s not about wildlife noticing or attacking you, it’s about how your presence, and environmental […]
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