Most people will never step foot on Antarctica, but Google is giving people a taste of what it is like.
Google has today launched a panoramic of five Antarctic scenes: The South Pole Telescope, Ernest Shackleton's Hut, Robert Falcon Scott's Hut, the Ceremonial South Pole, and the Cape Royds Adelie penguin rookery.
The images work the same as Google's Street View, which launched in September 2010, allowing viewers to zoom into the image and see the scenes from different angles.
On Google's official blog, Street View technical programme manager Alex Starns said the images were made with the help of the Polar Geospatial Centre at the University of Minnesota and the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust.
"The goal of these efforts is to provide scientists and travel (or penguin) enthusiasts all over the world with the most accurate, high-resolution data of these important historic locations," Starns said.
