Antarctica is a place of wild beauty where you can feel the pulse of the earth. During summer, from November to March, the sun shines for 22 hours a day. And if the wind isn’t blowing, the landscape is totally silent.
In November, little penguins hatch from eggs under the watchful eye of their parents, as the landscape slowly thaws after the winter to reveal colourful lichen and moss. In the sky, petrels, albatrosses, gulls and pintados swoop and soar. By February a profusion of young birds and seals make their debut on this fragile stage.
Antarctica is bigger than Europe and Australia, with a land mass of about 14 million km2. However, only 1 % of this land is visible as mountains and coastal features; the rest is covered…
