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...make it easier to plan a marathon in Antarctica, though. Seventy-five miles off the Antarctic Peninsula, King George Island is one of the most accessible, hospitable points on the continental shelf. But the site is still a two-day sea voyage from the world's southernmost city, Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. Tourism regulations prohibit more than 100 people from gathering in the same place at the same time, so the race start must be staggered. And weather and course conditions are always unpredictable - as they are for all Antarctic expeditions. One year, in fact, the weather...
...Despite the difficulties of visiting the most Plutonic of all continents, nearly 15,000 people a year make the schlepp. Antarctica stands at the lofty apex of adventure travel; it is the loudest of holiday boasts. Ninety-seven percent of its visitors depart from the southernmost Argentine port of Ushuaia, where about 20 international tour operators sell cruises on 100-meter ice vessels, each carrying about 100 passengers. Other trips leave from Christchurch, New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania; and South Africa's Cape Town. All offer a beguiling array of experiences from close-up views of mothballed whaling stations to courtesy...
...only North American journalist allowed to remain south of Buenos Aires after military restrictions were placed on the southern coast, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter spent five days in Ushuaia (pop. 10,000), the world's southernmost town. There he encountered surprising warmth and civility from a people whose nation was at war. But all that ended on April 30, when the U.S. declared its support for Britain. McWhirter was ordered to leave for Buenos Aires on the first available flight. He describes his experience...
...daybreak in Ushuaia I was put on a 44-seat air force Fokker turboprop for a mail flight to the coastal bases of Rio Grande and Rio Gallegos. It was the first leg of a three-flight, twelve-hour journey in custody. It was also an edgy and unpleasant experience. My bags were "searched" twice, that being the kindest term for the hostile way in which personal contents can be scornfully tossed, spilled and made to seem like bits of compromising evidence all their own. Why was a "distinguished" American journalist carrying a duffel bag? Why were his shirts rumpled...
Although the foreign press corps in Argentina has swelled to 740, reports from there were distressingly thin. Foreign correspondents were ordered out of the areas closest to the Falklands, and three British journalists, arrested April 13 and charged with being spies, remained in jail in Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world. Reporting was not much easier in Buenos Aires. "The big thing is access," says David Miller, bureau manager of the 27-strong CBS team, "and we just don't have it. In most countries the military will set up show-and-tell sessions. Not here...