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Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth. Two thirds of all our planet’s fresh water is locked up there in the form of ice in a continent twice the size of Australia. It is the world’s highest continent, with more than half...
The Antarctic Convergence is the circumpolar region, conveniently drawn as a line undulating between 50˚ and 60˚S, and well defined by thermometer readings. It is sometimes marked by a localised belt of fog or mist, where the warm, more...
The earliest written reference to any penguin was in the account of Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India in 1499, in the Angrade Sao Bras. In his log he wrote of birds ‘as large as ganders and with a cry resembling the braying of asses, which could...
The earliest written reference to any penguin was in the account of Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India in 1499, in the Angrade Sao Bras. In his log he wrote of birds ‘as large as ganders and with a cry resembling the braying of asses, which could...
The greater part of the Antarctic continent is permanently covered by snow and ice. Less than 1% offers a bare surface suitable for colonisation by plants. That small proportion is mainly around the very edge, on the islands and mainland...