Antarctic Peninsula Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Antarctic Peninsula
For practical purposes, the area you can visit is the west coast and islands of the northern Peninsula, which is calledGraham Land.This lies mostly outside the Antarctic Circle and has a climate transitional between the marine polar climate of the Antarctic islands (where the sea only freezes in mid-winter) and the intense cold of the continent's interior. This means ships can approach, and there's things to see, with fjord-like scenery and historic bases. Penguins and other land life depend upon sea access for food, so they form huge colonies here. By contrast the east coast of the Peninsula faces the Weddell Sea, always socked in by ice. South of a line at 69° South the mountains merge into the Antarctic Plateau, though an offshore ridge persists as the large Alexander Island. This area
Antarctic Peninsula Travel Guide Sections
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