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Little America bases, 10, 23, 26–27, seals, 13, 47–48, 64, 84–85, 87, 97,
36–39, 43, 46, 53, 72, 74 103, 107
elephant seals, 89, 104
magnetic field, 19, 43–44, 46, 77, 81 leopard seals, 47, 87, 89
maps, 13, 16, 49, 61, 79 Weddell seals, 13, 49, 89, 118
mapmakers, 12, 73 segregation, 30, 32–33, 54
mapping, 12, 15, 19, 29, 46, 49, 68, seismic data, 70, 94, 117
70, 73, 94 Shackleton, Ernest, 17–19, 24–25, 47,
Marguerite Bay, 44, 51–52, 59 67, 79
marine reserve, 105 skiing, 22–23, 23, 51, 55, 72, 114
microbes, 80, 83 Snow Cruiser, 29, 40, 42–43
moss, 83–84 Southern Ocean, 5, 11, 13, 25, 36, 79,
mountain ranges, 7, 25, 29, 52, 63–65, 88, 92, 96, 105
67–69, 70–73, 82, 84–85, 90, South Pole, 10–11, 26, 64–65, 71, 85,
106, 114 108, 110
Mount Erebus, 14, 67–68, 114 of balance, 81
Mount Vinson, 68
expeditions to, 19, 22, 34, 43, 55, 99,
North Pole, 11, 19–21, 26, 55, 76, 99 114, 117
geographic, 18–19, 22, 24, 78, 81
ocean acidification, 96 geomagnetic, 81
ocean currents, 11, 63, 92, 94, 99 gravitational field, 61
ozone layer, 99–100, 111
of inaccessibility, 81
Pangaea instantaneous, 81
Gondwanaland, 60–62 magnetic, 19, 29, 38, 44, 78–79, 81
Peary, Robert, 19–21 South Pole Telescope, 110–111
penguins, 47, 54, 64, 82, 84, 89, 98, Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, 2011–
104–105, 107, 117, 119 2020, 104
Adélie penguins, 9, 14, 48–49, summer in Antarctica, 11, 22, 24, 29, 40,
85–87, 96 46, 64–65, 67, 77, 92, 104, 107,
emperor penguins, 48, 86–87 111–113
plastic, 98, 100, 104 surveys, 4, 19, 20, 23, 40, 46, 74
microplastic, 99 tardigrades, 71, 84–85
pollution, 97–98
temperatures, 10–11, 22, 29, 47, 49,
radar, 70–71, 73, 94 62, 68, 70–71, 73, 78, 80, 82, 85,
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica 88, 92, 94, 96–97, 103, 108, 110,
(REMA), 73 112, 119
Ross, James Clark, 14, 65, 73 territory claims on Antarctica, 101
Ross Ice Shelf, 12, 14, 17, 37, 49, 64–65, tilt of Earth, 11, 63
74 tourism, 4, 52, 97, 102, 114–115
types of ice
satellite images, 70–71, 73, 94 frazil ice, 74
Scott, Robert Falcon, 17, 19, 22, 55, 63, iceberg, 6–8, 11, 15, 37, 41, 74, 76,
66, 99 82, 90, 106, 115, 117–118
sea level rise, 92, 94–95, 105, 117

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