Antarctic Journal Of The United States

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What is it like to live in a tiny Polar Haven for two months? To look into the odd, expressive eyes of an Adélie chick? To be flipper-slapped by a bird whose wings are powerful enough to propel it swiftly through frigid waters? Sophie Webb knows, and she gives readers a frank firsthand account of what it is like to spend a season in a land not yet affected by humans, yet populated for centuries by true dwellers of the Antarctic—the fearless, round-bellied, pink-footed, waddling, diving, utterly adept Adélie penguins.

A collection of papers from data assembled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Antarctic Journal of the United States describing how Antarctica is being developed as a vast natural and political laboratory. Text of the Antaractic Treaty is included.