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Antarctic

Similarly there are only two gateways for travel to Antarctica: from Cape Town, South Africa, to Novolazarevskaya in the Queen Maud Land mountain range; or from Punta Arenas, Argentina, to the Patriot Hills base, recently relocated to the Union Glacier. Here the season stretches between early November and the beginning of February, giving a good four months to get on and off the continent. Outside this window there are no commercial flights in or out.

See below (ssss1) for details of the main operators in both the Antarctic and Arctic. Contact them for information of costs and logistics.

Regulations and guidelines

There are very few places on our planet where there is no policing body forcing us to ‘obey the rules’, but the Arctic and Antarctic both fall into this bracket – perhaps because the polar regions don't offer the most exciting jobs for peace-keeping forces!

A ‘steamy’ lead at sunset with a treacherous and unstable shoreline

The Antarctic is a stable continent with mountains peeking through an enormously huge ice mass