BIENVENIDO A MI
TIENDA OFICIAL

            Antarctica 

                      A Land of Ice and Wildlife

 

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent, a frozen expanse of ice and silence that stretches over 14 million square kilometers, making it the fifth-largest continent and the coldest, driest, and windiest place on the planet. Covered by ice up to 4.8 km thick, Antarctica holds about 70% of the world’s freshwater and remains one of the most untouched landscapes on Earth.

 

Though inhospitable to permanent human settlement, Antarctica teems with life. Along its dramatic coastline and ice-cloaked islands, you’ll find millions of penguins, including Adélie, gentoo, and chinstrap penguins, as well as the iconic emperor penguin—the only species to breed during the harsh Antarctic winter.

 

Massive crabeater, Weddell, leopard, and elephant seals haul out onto the ice, while humpback, minke, and orca whalespatrol the nutrient-rich Southern Ocean. Above, petrels, skuas, and albatrosses ride the fierce polar winds.

 

Antarctica is also a place of deep human fascination—home to historic explorers like Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott, and governed today by international cooperation under the Antarctic Treaty, which protects it as a place of peace and science.