Travelling to Antarctica

One of the most interesting, yet hostile places on the planet, if not the most, is the continent of Antarctica. This is a place right at the bottom of the world, where the temperatures can regularly drop to -49°C and have reached a record of -89.6°C at Vostok station in 1983. Because of this, even the animals that are well adapted to deal with the cold mostly leave the Antarctic during the winter months (except for the penguins).

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If you have a desire to visit the Antarctic, this is not a place where you can just go and set up home. The Antarctic treaty protects the continent and is in place to ensure that the environment and the life that calls it home is not put in any danger, and therefore anyone wishing to spend time living in Antarctica must be doing so by causing no problem for the environment and with good scientific reason.

There are jobs that you can get that enable you to live on the continent for a time, and there are many stations throughout Antarctica where scientists doing these jobs are based, the largest being McMurdo station. Of course, you need to have the required qualifications to enable you to do these jobs.

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If you want to visit the Antarctic however, there are trips to the continent via a boat  – just make sure that you pack your warmest clothes like these irish mens sweaters https://www.shamrockgift.com/aran-sweaters/mens-aran-sweaters/ to keep the cold at bay! Although it is a long journey, it is the trip of a lifetime and a chance to see a unique and beautiful natural habitat.