Experiences labelled with 'Shetland'
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 ...
