Best Travel Destinations - Antarctica
Polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard once said that Antarctic “exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.” Since Cherry’s Antarctic exploration in the 1900s a lot has changed; it is now quicker and more comfortable to travel to Antarctica than it ever was in the past. But that’s not to say the element of adventure and exploration is lost as well. It’s quite the contrary actually. Antarctica, the largest desert in the world and the least visited continent, is an inhospitable land surrounded by tumultuous seas that make getting there an adventure all its own. The ships used for transport have been upgraded from the wooden vessels of old to new icebreakers that can push ...
The Antarctic glaciers are known to have true natural mysteries and phenomena, and have left several questions unanswered over the centuries. Blood Falls, though, is one which was solved by scientists long ago. Blood Falls is a waterfall resembling a bloodstream which runs slowly from the Taylor Glacier in McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. When the spectacular Blood Falls was discovered during 1911, it gave many impressions to geologists at the time, producing several different theories. Researchers later revealed that microbes were responsible for causing the Blood Falls phenomenon. On first sight, spewing a rust-like material, the Falls at Taylor Glacier can be rather puzzling, especially as most people are used to “white” waterfalls. The spectacular views of Taylor Falls have drawn scientists and researchers’ ...
