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Snowy hillside

Occasionally in the lowlying areas we would see a distant colony of penguins, but they probably avoid areas accessible to tourist traffic. Why shouldn't they, with so much territory at their disposal?
Antarctia

February 5th 2007
We left the tip of South America early in February and cruised through the Straits of Magellan toward Antarctica, a trip of about 400 miles. We tried to remedy our total ignorance a little on the way, and found that the Antarctic is really a large continent (unlike the Arctic, which is all ice and water). On the map Antarctica shaped like a round blob with a little pigtai ... read more
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