Why has no one crossed the widest longest portion of Antarctica going from the east all the way to the west? All journeys skip the westerly portion altogether. Why is that? -
![North Pole: Ships to sail straight path between Pacific and Atlantic oceans unaided within decades due to thinning ice - Mirror Online North Pole: Ships to sail straight path between Pacific and Atlantic oceans unaided within decades due to thinning ice - Mirror Online](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1742997.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200b/Possible%20shipping%20routes%20through%20Arctic.jpg)
North Pole: Ships to sail straight path between Pacific and Atlantic oceans unaided within decades due to thinning ice - Mirror Online
Saildrone is first to circumnavigate Antarctica, in search for carbon dioxide | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
![200 years of exploring Antarctica – the world's coldest, most forbidding and most peaceful continent 200 years of exploring Antarctica – the world's coldest, most forbidding and most peaceful continent](https://images.theconversation.com/files/311477/original/file-20200122-117962-1knrm08.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=320&h=320&fit=crop)