Visiting Ushuaia: Argentina’s Gateway to Antarctica
Ushuaia brands itself the end of the world. Its prison, railway, lighthouse and city title are all disputed, except one: the gateway to Antarctica.
Category Islands & Remote Frontiers
Visiting Milford Sound: New Zealand’s Deep-Water Fjord
Milford Sound receives more rain than most rainforests, yet that same rain is why deep-sea black coral now lives just metres below the surface. The story of the fjord Cook sailed past twice, and the hermit who chose to live there alone.
Visiting Easter Island: Rapa Nui’s Moai Statues
Visiting Easter Island: how the Rapa Nui moved thousand-ton moai statues without wheels or draft animals, and why the truth behind the island's collapse is still debated.
Visiting Kolmanskop: Namibia’s Diamond Ghost Town
In 1908 a railway worker found a diamond in the Namib sand. Within decades, the boomtown built on it was abandoned to the desert.
Visiting Hashima Island: The World’s Most Crowded Island
Our guide to Hashima Island, a speck of concrete jutting out from the East China Sea, which has a long and complicated history.