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larger than the Arctic’s and contains more variability, shrinking and growing each summer and winter from 1 to 7 million square miles versus 2.5 to 6 million square miles. With only 2% of the continent revealed, what we see is mostly water – ocean, clouds, precipitation, ice.

Trying to see the land, I saw myself in the land. Where one place starts and another ends, it’s hard to tell. An island is also a mountain mostly in the sea. The oceans are many and one simultaneously. There’s the space moved through and the one who moves through it or lets it move through them. The body’s already porous and pervious, constantly eating, drinking, breathing a place within a place. What becomes more permeable is the heart and the mind. How many ways can the self open itself to its greater self?

in the sky one sun light’s second sight reflected on the sea billions

It’s Reciprocity - It’s Undeniable Reciprocity only recently discovered (how long ago depends on who you ask and how they mark it), Antarctica has never had an indigenous culture and will remain an international territory devoted to science until 2048 – hopefully longer. It’s no man’s land and everyone’s land. It’s a proof of past and a test for future international cooperation. The quick rebound of humpback whale populations and the slow closing of the ozone hole clearly demonstrate conservation works. Together, a global community of scientists continues to discover wonders there and many times visitors help them.

They say you go as a tourist and return as an ambassador. You can’t go to Antarctica and return unchanged. You may never have been to Antarctica but we’ve all been touched by it. While Antarctica seems almost impossibly remote, it exerts powerful influences on our climate, weather, oceans, and tidelines. No other place so clearly demonstrates how deeply connected everything and everyone is on this tiny blue marble floating through space that we call Earth. Antarctica’s extraordinary richness, stunning grandeur, and unforgettable beauty are profoundly transformative.

Having travelled to Antarctica 13 times in 18 years, I now make an annual or a biannual migration to a place I think of as another home, if not for my body but for my heart. When I’m not dreaming in Antarctica, I’m dreaming of her.

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