Become an Antartic Explorer

Peer through Google’s ‘looking glass’ at life in Antartica!
In September 2012 Google launched the first Street View imagery of the Antarctic, enabling people from more habitable lands to see penguins in Antarctica for the first time. Today they’re bringing you additional panoramic imagery of historic Antarctic locations that you can view from the comfort of your homes.
Google will post this special collection to their World Wonders site, where you can learn more about the history of South Pole exploration.
With the help of the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota and the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, the interiors and exteriors of historical sites can viewed in 360-imagery – including the South Pole Telescope, Shackleton’s hut, Scott’s hut, Cape Royds Adélie Penguin Rookery and the Ceremonial South Pole.
Explore the Abode of Adventurers
After more than a century, the structures are still intact, along with well-preserved examples of the food, medicine, survival gear and equipment used during the expeditions. Now anyone can explore these huts and get insight into how these men lived for months at a time.
The goal of these efforts is to provide scientists and travel (or penguin) enthusiasts all over the world with the most accurate, high-resolution data of these important historic locations. With this access, schoolchildren as far as Bangalore can count penguin colonies on Snow Hill Island, and geologists in Georgia can trace sedimentary layers in the Dry Valleys from the comfort of their desks.
Feel free to leave your boots and mittens behind, and embark on a trip to Antarctica.