Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

- Mark Hoppus

For my 40th birthday, I took a boat from Ushuaia in Argentina to visit the 7th continent at the bottom of the world. The landscape, the animals, and the weather are all unique and we were incredibly fortunate in how far south we were able to go.

At our most southern only 3,000 people were lower on the globe than we were.

 
Pourquoi Pas Island Sebastian Shaw Pourquoi Pas Island Sebastian Shaw

Pourquoi Pas Island

Another Antarctic island discovered by Jean-Baptiste Charcot of the French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910), Pourquoi Pas, was named for Charcot's ship in the 1930s by the British Graham Land Expedition who first charted the island.

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