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Antarctica ecologically unique place

Antarctica is a remarkable continent – remote, hostile and uninhabited.  This frozen continent is key to understanding how our world works, and our impact upon it. Antarctica is important for science because of its profound effect on the Earth’s climate and ocean systems.  Locked in its four kilometre-thick ice sheet completely unique record of what our planet’s climate was like over the past one million years. Antarctica is important for science because of its profound effect on the Earth’s climate...