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The Aurora Australis can often be seen from Antarctica and other southern hemisphere locations, particularly near the Antarctic circle. The word “aurora” is the Latin word for lights, “australis” being the Latin word for southern.
The English Coast of Antarctica lies 600km from the nearest research station – a remote frontier, where the ice cliffs of the Stange Ice Shelf mark the edge of a giant floating, frozen wilderness.
The global population of southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) is around 50,000 pairs. They are the top avian predator in the Antarctic. This is one of the most sexually size-dimorphic of all seabirds, with males around 20% larger than females and with much more robust bills.
The striking images on these stamps are colour enhanced scanning electron microscope (SEM) photographs of four diatom species found in Antarctica. Diatoms are one of the most abundant and diverse groups of photosynthetic algae.
Dogs were taken to the Antarctic on the early ‘heroic age’ expeditions at the turn of the 20th Century. They were instrumental in helping the Norwegian explorer Amundsen and his team to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1911.
In 1943, at the height of the Second World War, the British Government launched a top-secret expedition to the Antarctic. Cabinet approval for the expedition was granted on 28th January 1943 and the expedition set out just 10 months later, in November 1943.
Whales and seals are the two groups of marine mammals to be found in the Southern Ocean, where they are an important part of the marine ecosystem.
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