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ANTARCTICA
A VOYAGE TO
STORY & PHOTOS BY MARIBETH MELLIN
ANTARCTICA
A “First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it
curious obsession took hold the mo-
ment I set forth for Antarctica. Dur-
breaks your heart.”
ing the long journey to the fin del
mundo, the end of the world at the tip I decided right then I needed a blank slate to face
of South America, all non-essential in- the loneliest, coldest, windiest, iciest continent, a
formation evaporated from my mind. place astronauts call the white lantern. I’m not a
I never even got past the first sen- history or science buff and knew little about Ernest
tence in Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel “Antarctica.” Shackleton, Roald Amundson, Robert Scott or torturous
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