As the only uninhabited continent, Antarctica has no government and belongs to no country. CIA World Factbook - Antarctica Wikipedia - Antarctica Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Wikipeidia - Emperor Penguins Wikipedia - Penguins > Robert Falcon Scott > Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (Faddey Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen) > Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev > Edward Bransfield > Nathaniel Brown Palmer > Sir James Clark Ross > Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton > Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen > Richard Evelyn Byrd > George J. Dufek "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has yet been devised." - Apsley Cherry-Garrard