Antarctica
Antártida
Natural phenomena in Antarctica
- Cría de los pingüinos emperador — Mayo a agosto (invierno austral)
Parks and reserves
Amanda Bay
One of the largest known emperor penguin breeding colonies in East Antarctica
View parkASMA 1Admiralty Bay
Managed jointly by four Latin American and European countries with bases on its shores, around the largest bay on King George Island
View parkASPA 173Terra Nova Bay
A critical winter refuge for the Antarctic icefish, a family of fish with no haemoglobin in the blood, adapted to extreme cold
View parkHistoric Site and Monument / ASPACape Adare
The largest Adélie penguin colony in the world and the first permanent building ever raised in Antarctica (1899)
View parkASPA 124Cape 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
View parkHistoric Site and Monument / ASPACape Evans
The base hut of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), from which he never returned alive
View parkASPACape Hallett
A former joint New Zealand-United States research station of the Cold War, dismantled and restored to its natural state in the 1970s
View parkASPA (Antarctic Specially Protected Area) 121Cape Royds
The southernmost Adélie penguin colony in the world, beside Shackleton's hut of 1908
View parkASPA 149Cape Shirreff
One of the longest-running long-term monitoring programmes for Antarctic fur seal and chinstrap penguin on the continent, going since 1965
View parkASPA 172Blood Falls (Taylor Glacier)
A subglacial spring of water reddened by iron oxide, flowing continuously from beneath the ice for more than a million years
View parkDiving and snorkelling
Deception Island
A flooded volcanic caldera entered by sailing through a narrow breach, Neptune's Bellows. Geothermal activity warms the water locally at some points in Whalers Bay.
View dive sitePolar fjordPuerto Paraíso
A spectacular bay ringed by glaciers; reckoned one of the most extreme and most beautiful dives on the planet.
View dive siteEspecies documentadas en Antarctica
49 species found
Least ConcernSouthern Right Whale
Eubalaena australis
Least ConcernHumpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Least ConcernArctic Tern
Sterna paradisaea
Least ConcernImperial Shag
Leucocarbo atriceps
Least ConcernCrabeater Seal
Lobodon carcinophaga
Least ConcernWeddell Seal
Leptonychotes weddellii
Least ConcernLeopard Seal
Hydrurga leptonyx
Least ConcernAntarctic Krill
Euphausia superba
Least ConcernSouth Polar Skua
Stercorarius maccormicki
Least ConcernWilson's Storm Petrel
Oceanites oceanicus
Least ConcernSnowy Sheathbill
Chionis albus
Least ConcernAntarctic Petrel
Thalassoica antarctica
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Based on what we already know about Antarctica.