Adventure Travel

By Jacob Mccoy

 Of all the planets regions, Antarctica is the most inaccessible and the most desolate. It is the only region on Earth that all nations agreed they could share. But now the Antarctica is being considered by many nations as a future source of natural resource as other sources have started to run out.


The land of penguins, seals, whales and ice is seen as a potential land of oil, coal and iron. The haven for scientific studies and international cooperation is envisioned as a possible powderkeg of nationalistic confrontation.

Many of the people who work in scientific research in the Antarctic have often spoke of the atmosphere as one of peaceful cooperation and the sharing between international communities. The high level of human bonding is said to be because of the common challenge that the environment creates, and a common interest in the research that is being done.

Next to the McMurdo headquarters of the National Science Foundation, which runs U.S. Antarctica activities, is a small, flag-encircled park dedicated to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and his

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