Antarctica is a 13.9 million km2 (5.4 million miles2) continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean (Figure 1). It is the remotest and least visited continent, has no sovereign, and has never had a permanent human population. A substantial diversity of wildlife can be found in the Antarctic Peninsula region during the warmer summer months (October–March). Most tourists depart from Ushuaia, Argentina, aboard ice-strengthened ships on 10–14-day cruises mainly to the Western shores of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Bauer, T.G. (2016). Antarctic tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_7
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