FOR CENTURIES ANTARCTICA WAS A PLACE OF COUNTLESS SECRETS.
NUMEROUS EXPEDITIONS TRIED TO DISCOVER ITS MOST HIDDEN MYSTERIES.
SINCE THE 14TH CENTURY, THE PERIOD WHERE PIRIS REIS MADE HIS FIRST MAP OF THE WORLD WHICH INCLUDES IN SINGULAR DETAIL THE COASTS OF THE WHITE CONTINENT (rumors say that he took information from old navigators who sailed the world in previous centuries) THEY INCREASED SINCE THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY WITH THE BELGIAN EXPEDITION, UNTIL THE FAMOUS HIGH JUMP, AN OPERATION COMMANDED BY ADMIRAL RICHARD EVELYN BYRD, WHICH ENDED CATASTROPHICALLY WITH LOSS OF SHIPS, PLANES AND HUMAN LIFE (THE DETAILS WERE KEPT AS STATE SECRETS). HOWEVER, SEVERAL BASES WERE INSTALLED ON THE COASTS OF THIS CONTINENT, PRIOR TO THE AGREEMENT OF THE ANTARCTIC TREATY, SIGNED BY 12 NATIONS THAT HAD COMMON INTERESTS IN IT. RUMORS SAY THAT IT HAS BEEN HARD TO STUDY THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT, EXCEPT IN CERTAIN PLACES. THERE IS ONLY A MILITARY PRESENCE AND THE LIMIT 60° SOUTH LATITUDE IS A PROHIBITED BORDER FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL, EXCEPT PERMIT ISSUED BY SOME COUNTRY.
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