Buzz Aldrin recovering in New Zealand after falling ill at South Pole. Deputy head of NASA also at South Pole. These visits come after John Kerry visited Antarctica. In Feb. 2016, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow was in Antarctica before holding historic talks with Pope Francis in Havana. What's going on down there that warrants so many VIP visits? Antarctica also saw visits from Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in 2008 and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2007.
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