An Otherworldly Journey to the Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica

Antarctica has been described as a land that looks like a fairy tale.

An Antarctic glacier that has calved. Carol Ann Davidson/TNS

By Carol Ann Davidson From Tribune News Service

Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in Antarctica “is a land that looks like a fairy tale … the coldest, windiest, and driest place on earth … wild as any on the globe … it lies unseen and untrodden.”