Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America.
Until 30 years ago only the most adventurous of explorers set foot on Antarctica's vast continent of snow, ice and unquestionable beauty. Once the ultimate survival challenge as the highest, coldest and windiest continent in the world, today Antarctica is an intellectual challenge to the scientists who inhabit it and presents a wilderness like no other to the modern visitor.
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