Word: southernmost
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GONE FISH It's not a good time to be an aquatic vertebrate, real or represented. The precarious state of the Patagonian toothfish, left, one of the top two species in Antarctica, was the leading topic at a conference on the southernmost continent, attended by ministers from 24 countries. At least 20,000 tons of toothfish are illegally netted every year. Even more endangered is the CatDog, right. A federal judge ruled this Nabisco cracker--part of a Nickelodeon tie-in--cannot swim into stores because it looks too much like Pepperidge Farm's famous Goldfish. A Nabisco spokesman called...
...ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientist, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton proposed to force a passage by dogsled across the continent. The trek was intended to surpass the achievement of Shackleton's great rival, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who had reached the South Pole early in 1912 (narrowly preceded by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen) but had died with his four companions on the march back...
...reads the Feb. 2, 1659, entry in the diary of Jan van Riebeeck, leader of the Dutch East India Co.'s settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. His words were written just five years after European vines were first planted at the southernmost tip of Africa. By the 18th century, South African Muscats were being served in Europe's royal houses; Napoleon drank a bottle a day during his exile on St. Helena. Jane Austen prescribed Cape Constantia wine for the brokenhearted Marianne in Sense and Sensibility. Though listed as products of the New World, Cape wines are being...
...hotel five years ago. "We wanted to create a place for tourists to spend a week without worrying about survival or unnecessary sacrifices," he says of his $7 million retreat in the windswept Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, a six-hour drive from Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city. "We aim to soften the roughness of nature...
...everywhere the 7,000-ft. mountains and the apple and peach and apricot orchards give a bell-like vigor to the air. Nagano is actually on almost the same latitude as Rome and San Francisco--the southernmost city ever to be host of a Winter Games--but its nearby mountains are famous for their clear, rushing streams and sharp blue skies. "This is the most beautiful place in Japan," says an American professor at a local university. "I'll be happy if I never see Tokyo in my life again...