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| | GCT : Voyage to Antarctica (2006) : Travel Notes (1) |
 | | Antarctica is the world’s fifth-largest continent, larger than either Europe or Australia and about 1.5 times the size of the continental U.S. It is a land of rugged superlatives: the coldest, windiest, driest, and highest (on average) of the world’s large land masses. |
 | | Antarctica’s lowest point is at the Bentley Subglacial Trench, 8200 feet below sea level, where the overlying ice is nearly 10,000 feet thick. |
 | | The most famous expeditions are certainly those of Ernest Shackleton in 1914, with its incredible drama of surviving a shipwreck, and the race to the South Pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who succeeded in 1911, and Englishman Robert Scott, who perished in the attempt. |
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