Antarctica

Antártida

November to March

49

Documented species

26

Parks and reserves

2

Dive sites

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Natural phenomena in Antarctica

  • Cría de los pingüinos emperador — Mayo a agosto (invierno austral)

Parks and reserves

ASPA 169

Amanda Bay

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

View parkASMA 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

View parkASPA 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

View parkHistoric Site and Monument / ASPA

Cape Adare

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

View parkASPA 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

View parkHistoric 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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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

View parkASPA (Antarctic Specially Protected Area) 121

Cape Royds

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

View parkASPA 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

View parkASPA 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.

ParkAmanda BayBuceoDeception Island