I'Ve Never Been To The Antartic Poem by Francis Duggan

I've never been to the Antartic the Land of eternal snow
Where temperatures can often reach sixty degrees below
The freezing point of zero, down there it must be cold
Even colder than the Artic where men perished for gold.

I've never been to the Antartic though I readily can recall
Watching documentaries on T.V. on the Earth's coldest part of all
Where in Winter the Antartic waters for miles around are froze
And through the frost bound continent the icy cold wind blows.

The home of the Emperor Penguins the big birds of the sea
They dive to depths of over eight hundred feet that seems quite deep to me
In the coldest months of winter the male one big egg incubate
And for the female to return from sea to raise the chick a hungry two months wait.

In the southern most southern continent that reaches far and wide
Only the hardiest of human beings for short periods could reside
An unwelcoming part of Planet Earth and few humans venture there
And only hardy Southern mammals and sea birds such cold temperatures could bear.

I've never been to Antartica for me that seems too cold
Even far colder than the Artic where men perished for gold
Since Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole almost ninety years ago
Few humans have ever ventured on the Land of ice and snow