Is Antarctica a country? The future of the world's least understood continent
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The appeal of the unknown and the desire to set foot on every continent has encouraged travelers to try and make their way to Antarctica, but it's a difficult place to classify.
(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?More Related News