Mexican Antonio Rodriguez Cortes, 49 years old, arrived to Punta Arenas traveling on a motorbike from Alaska and with the aim to reach Antarctica.

Rodriguez, a native of Federal District, told local newspaper "El Pinguino" he started his travel on a Scooter Elite 125 in Alaska 15 months ago, visiting Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, where a ship took him to Colombia, going to Ecuador, B Olivia and Chile.

The Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race is back on its eighth edition this February with the current champions facing the greatest land on history, on a route which shall create the southerner and demanding race ever ran.

The "Polar Code" just approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will revolutionize Antarctic tourism assures "El Mercurio" newspaper informing of this IMO meeting in London, England.

The Polar Code is a guide for ships operating on Polar waters inviting countries to join willingly to these regulations starting on January 1st of 2011, setting regulations for tourism cruisers which travel to the Antarctica.

Bicentennial Scientific Antarctic Expedition research team made only land expeditions on their first days on White Continent due to bad weather conditions.

Great quantity of snow, cloudiness and 50 k/h winds stopped Zodiac boats to sail to take samples at Fildes Bay, King George island, near by sites, where Chilean Antarctic Institute Base Professor Julio Escudero is located.

Jessica Watson, a 16 years old Australian, became the youngest lonesome navigator to travel around the world on a sailboat.

On her "Ella's Pink Lady" she crossed the Cape Horn from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

On her blog she wrote her ambition was to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the World.

Company Delfín Marino, which supports aquiculture activities, expeditions, sea and submarine research, named its new multipurpose ship "Del Mar II" to satisfy needs of the region, trusting in the future and sustainable development of aquiculture.