Now packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated fifth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, full accounts of interesting places, spectacular landscapes, and local plants and wildlife-from penguins and other seabirds to whales, seals, and myriad mammals. A definitive field guide to Antarctica, this book caters to South Pole visitors traveling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat. Written by experienced Antarctic scientists and travel guides who are recognized experts in the continent's wildlife, conservation, and political history, every page offers gorgeous color photographs of the great white south. This new edition pays special attention to explaining the threats to Antarctic conservation, including from climate change, global warming, and plastics pollution, and includes tips on how visitors can minimize their own impact and help preserve this unique continent.
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978-1-927249-82-6 (9781927249826)
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- About the authors
- Foreword
- INTRODUCING ANTARCTICA
- The frozen continent
- Physical Antarctica
- Importance of latitude
- Big ice
- Geology
- Political Antarctica
- PLACES
- Ushuaia
- Drake Passage
- South Shetland Islands
- Point Wild, Elephant Island
- Deception Island
- Whaler's Bay, Deception Island
- Baily Head, Deception Island
- Pendulum Cove, Deception Island
- Half Moon Island
- Hannah Point, Livingston Island
- King George Island
- Arctowski Station, King George Island
- Yankee Harbour, Greenwich Island
- Aitcho IslandsAntarctic Peninsula
- Antarctic Sound
- Hope Bay
- Brown Bluff
- Paulet Island
- Cuverville Island
- Paradise Harbour
- Waterboat Point, Paradise Harbour
- Brown Station, Paradise Harbour
- Neumayer Channel
- Lemaire Channel
- Port Lockroy
- Neko Harbour
- Petermann Island
- Gerlache Strait
- Falklands Islands
- South Georgia Ross
- Sea Cape
- Adare Cape
- Royds Cape
- Evans McMurdo / Scott Base
- Ross Ice Shelf
- LIFE IN ANTARCTICA
- The terrestrial ecosystem
- Plants
- Land-based animals
- The marine ecosystem
- The Southern Ocean
- The marine food web
- Plankton
- Sea-floor-dwelling organisms
- Fish
- Other vertebrates
- BIRDS
- Sea birds
- Black-browed albatross
- Grey-headed albatross
- Light-mantled sooty albatross
- Royal albatross
- Wandering albatross
- Antarctic petrel
- Cape petrel
- Snow petrel
- Southern giant petrel
- White-chinned petrel
- Wilson's storm petrel
- Sooty shearwater
- Southern fulmar
- Antarctic prion
- Antarctic shag
- Kelp gull
- Skua Antarctic tern
- Snowy sheathbill
- Penguins
- Adélie penguin
- Chinstrap penguin
- Emperor penguin
- King penguin
- Gentoo penguin
- Macaroni penguin
- Rockhopper penguin
- Magellanic penguin
- MAMMALS
- Seals
- Antarctic fur seal
- Crabeater seal
- Leopard seal
- Southern elephant seal
- Ross seal
- Weddell seal
- Whales
- Blue whale
- Humpback whale
- Killer whale
- Minke whale
- THREATS TO ANTARCTIC CONSERVATION
- The Antarctic Treaty
- Conservation
- Sealing
- Whaling
- Fishing
- Invasion of alien species
- Ozone depletion
- Global warmingAnthropogenic ocean acidificationPlastics and microplastics pollution
- Conservation status of wildlife
- Guidelines for Visitors
- Glossary
- Photograph credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
