Antarctica

Antártida

November to March

Natural phenomena in Antarctica

  • Cría de los pingüinos emperadorMayo a agosto (invierno austral)

Parks and reserves

ASPA 169

Amanda Bay

One of the largest known emperor penguin breeding colonies in East Antarctica

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ASMA 1

Admiralty Bay

Managed jointly by four Latin American and European countries with bases on its shores, around the largest bay on King George Island

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ASPA 173

Terra Nova Bay

A critical winter refuge for the Antarctic icefish, a family of fish with no haemoglobin in the blood, adapted to extreme cold

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Historic Site and Monument / ASPA

Cape Adare

The largest Adélie penguin colony in the world and the first permanent building ever raised in Antarctica (1899)

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ASPA 124

Cape Crozier

The setting of The Worst Journey in the World, an almost suicidal 1911 expedition to collect emperor penguin eggs in the depths of the polar winter

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Historic Site and Monument / ASPA

Cape Evans

The base hut of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), from which he never returned alive

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ASPA

Cape Hallett

A former joint New Zealand-United States research station of the Cold War, dismantled and restored to its natural state in the 1970s

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ASPA (Antarctic Specially Protected Area) 121

Cape Royds

The southernmost Adélie penguin colony in the world, beside Shackleton's hut of 1908

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ASPA 149

Cape Shirreff

One of the longest-running long-term monitoring programmes for Antarctic fur seal and chinstrap penguin on the continent, going since 1965

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ASPA 172

Blood Falls (Taylor Glacier)

A subglacial spring of water reddened by iron oxide, flowing continuously from beneath the ice for more than a million years

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Keep exploring

Based on what we already know about Antarctica.