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Adélie penguin

Did you know: Adélie penguins are the smallest Ross Sea penguin, but the most abundant. Their colony at Cape Royds in the Ross Sea is the southernmost penguin colony in the world.

Emperor penguin

Did you know: Emperor penguins are the largest penguin species and are the only species that breeds during the brutal Antarctic winter. Their amazing life cycle, in which they trek over 50-120 km of ice to reach their breeding colonies, was featured in the French documentary, March of the Penguins and the award winning animation Happy Feet.

Antarctic minke whale

Did you know: Minke whales are the smallest baleen whales in the world. Antarctic minke whales are their own separate species, but they are closely related to common minke whales

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Antarctica if the driest place on earth and the temperatures can get to

-89°C

the Ross sea temperatures get to minus 1.5 degrees

in the winter the sun never rises so the temperatures get really low

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the geography of the last ocean ross sea

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the geography of the last ocean ross sea

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the Ross sea is 4000 km away from new Zealand

the Antarctic Continent  of the size of America with 98 percent covered with ice caps

the ice caps can be 1,5 km deep in some places

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the Ross sea ecosystem it the last fully intact marine ecosystem

more than a third of the population of adeile penguins call the Ross sea there home
the Ross sea is home to a very rich bio diverse ecosystem

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The southernmost part of the Ross Sea is Gould Coast, which is about two hundred miles from the Geographic South Pole.
Unlike many other areas of the world's oceans, the Ross Sea's top predators are still abundant.

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This building houses the equipment used for field operations in the Antarctic. Researchers receive their allocated equipment here before departing on their research operations.

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The Adélie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae, is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast. They are among the most southerly distributed of all seabirds. In 1840, French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adèle.

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Dark Sector Laboratory, South Pole, Antarctica

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Dark Sector Laboratory, South Pole, Antarctica

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The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 394-inch diameter telescope located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which allows sub-millimeter wavelength observations.

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Shackleton's Hut, Cape Royds on Ross Island

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Shackleton's Hut, Cape Royds on Ross Island

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The hut served as the base of operations for the British 1907–1909 Nimrod Expedition, an early attempt in the race to the geographic South Pole led by a young Ernest Shackleton.

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Frozen in time since 1912, Scott’s Hut is a tangible reminder of the intrepid explorers of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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some facts:Half Moon Island, Antarctica (South Shetland Islands) is a 420-acre crescent-shaped island that has a large rookery of chinstrap penguins.

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a fact is:he marker in a semicircle are the flags of the 12 original Antarctic Treaty signatory nations

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first place we visted

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Huskies were first used in the Antarctic by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1898-1900.

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The oceans surrounding Antarctica are 4,000 to 5,000 meters in depth.