Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.