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Photos: Photos of Antarctica and the True South flag PHOTO: David Tipling/UIG/Getty Images
Antarctica: The globe s least inhabited continent has long filled travelers with curiosity.
Photos: Photos of Antarctica and the True South flag PHOTO: David Taylor/Science Photo Library/AP
The continent without a country: Among the countries that have research bases on Antarctica are China, Chile, Japan, Australia and the United States.
Photos: Photos of Antarctica and the True South flag PHOTO: Imaginechina/AP
Travel and tourism: Bucket listers dreaming of Antarctica can go there, but trips are expensive and challenging.
Photos: Photos of Antarctica and the True South flag
By Lilit Marcus, CNN
As long as humans have known of its existence, they have wanted to visit Antarctica.
It is the world’s least visited, least populated continent. On the best day, it is extremely hard to get to. And yet, the appeal of the unknown and the desire to set foot on every continent have encouraged travelers to try and make their way to the South Pole.
Still, for the obsessive catalogers of the world, Antarctica is difficult to classify. It’s not a country, so can you cross it off a bucket list? Who controls it? If it had a capital city, where would it be? What would be the native language?