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February 12th 2008
Antarctica After arriving in Ushuaia, which advertises itself as "El Fin del Mundo" (The End of the World), I had a wander about what turned out to be the most tourist orientated place in South America. There are cruise liners and Antarctic ships arriving and departing each day. The amazing thing about being so far south is that the sun sets just before 11pm, and gets up about 5pm. ... read more

Antarctica » Antarctica

Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas sou... ... read more

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Michael Thomsen

Thommo54

Australian male, 55 yrs old, semi-experienced solo traveller. Places I've been: Most of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malayasia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Antarctica (Peninsular), Paraguay. The blog is primarily about 2 South American trips, one from December 07 to March 08, and the other from November 08 to March 09. Between the 2 trips I learnt a fair bit of Spanish and then studied for 5 weeks solid in Buenos Aires to enable me to travel as I do. A few of the entries are n... full info

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