is the coldest, windiest, driest and highest continent in the
world. It is also the most isolated. This southernmost land of
ice and snow, where for part of the year the sun doesn't rise
and for another part, never sets, sits alone more than 2500 kilometres
south of Hobart. Only one native warm-blooded animal remains on
the Antarctic continent during the freezing winter--the emperor
penguin. No human has ever made a permanent home in Antarctica.
But people do visit--mostly scientists, support personnel, and
tourists. To some it becomes a way of life and they may go back
south many times over the years.