We feel chilly just looking at this image of the Europa sailing the Penola Strait, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This three-masted barque may resemble polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ship Endurance, which was lost to the ice in an expedition to the South Pole in 1915. But the Europa is a modern, refitted lightship that now sails the world with paying passengers and makes annual trips to Antarctica.
Commemorating peace in Antarctica
Today in History
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Penn Station
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Borrego Badlands
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Belted Galloway cows
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Christmas Eve
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Giving Tuesday
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Row, row, row your gondola
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Labor Day
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An underwater rainbow
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Does this chameleon look a little insecure?
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Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
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International Day of the Tropics
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Loud waters
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Ancient theater of Epidaurus, Greece
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Avatar Mountains, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China
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Bow Bridge in Central Park, New York City
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Inside the Oculus
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Invisible no longer
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King of the dinosaurs
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An endless journey
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