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The North Pole sits on drifting sea ice while the South Pole rests on a continent under kilometres of ice.
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Poles · The Poles
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No moon, no lights, no cameras allowed. Every paddle stroke lit up and fish left trails like sparks under the kayak.
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Vieques, Puerto Rico · The Americas
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Blood Falls is stained by iron-rich brine that has been sealed beneath the ice for over a million years.
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Taylor Glacier, Antarctica · The Poles
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.Katabatic winds strip the McMurdo Dry Valleys bare, and some have not seen rain for around two million years.
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McMurdo, Antarctica · The Poles
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We took the wrong ferry and spent a day on an island with one road, one bar and eleven residents who found the whole thing very funny.
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Bahamas · The Americas
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Emperors incubate eggs on their feet through the polar night at temperatures below minus 40 degrees.
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Antarctica · The Poles
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The sea is common to all.Residents leaving town are legally advised to carry a rifle because of the bear population.
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Svalbard, Norway · The Poles
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Afternoon thunderstorms arrive almost daily in summer. A ranger said the rule is simple: summit by noon, and if you cannot, do not summit.
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Rockies, USA · The Americas
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Permafrost prevents decomposition, so burials in the town cemetery stopped decades ago.
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Longyearbyen, Svalbard · The Poles
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A stranger had left a cooler of cold drinks at a road crossing with a note. Nobody took more than one, and somebody had refilled the ice that morning.
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Appalachian Trail, USA · The Americas
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Above the Arctic Circle the sun does not set for weeks, and blackout curtains are standard equipment.
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Arctic · The Poles
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All roads lead to Rome.Icebergs calve from land glaciers, so despite floating in the sea they are made of compressed fresh snow.
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Poles · The Poles
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We drove twenty minutes from the town and the difference was absurd. A ranger explained dark sky certification and then turned off her own torch to prove the point.
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Utah, USA · The Americas
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Roughly 90 percent of an iceberg's mass sits below the waterline, which is where the metaphor comes from.
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Poles · The Poles
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do.The modern passport with a photo and standard booklet emerged from a 1920 League of Nations conference.
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World · Around the World
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The guide checks the forecast for the whole watershed, not just the canyon. A storm eighty kilometres away can fill a slot canyon in minutes and there is nowhere to go.
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Arizona, USA · The Americas
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Before railways every town kept its own solar time. Standard time zones were adopted to make timetables possible.
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World · Around the World
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Nine nationalities, one pot of soup, minus twenty-eight outside. Somebody's grandmother's recipe was reconstructed by committee and it was excellent.
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Quebec, Canada · The Americas
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The international date line bends around island groups so countries are not split across two calendar days.
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Pacific · Around the World
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A shared journey is half as long.The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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