Where, a mere 20 years or so ago, just a few hundred tourists would set off towards the South Pole, more than 40, 000 inquisitive souls journeyed to the southernmost point on Earth last winter.

约在二十年以前，只有几百名游客会前往南极，而去年冬天，有四万多名好奇的精灵远行至地球最南端。

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It was the third expedition by Cape Farewell - which is named after the southernmost point of Greenland - since it began in May 2003.

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Robert takes me west of town to an 18th-century lighthouse, and dunes that stretch all to the way to Cape Algulhas, the southernmost point in Africa.

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At the southernmost point of the Cape Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve is home to Chacma baboons, ponderous, large antelopes called elands, ostriches, rare tortoises, bonteboks and zebras.

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