Overview Antarctica is a continent of superlatives. It is the coldest, windiest, driest and most forbidding of all the major landmasses in the world. [read more]

Overview by Lonely Planet :: Antarctica is the last vast wilderness on the planet. Its gigantic icebergs, mountain ranges and the emptiness of the polar plateau boggle the mind, while its weather curdles the blood. It's beautiful and serene, savage and violent, and its scale is almost unfathomable. [read more]