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Icy landscape

Antarctica's icy landscape.

Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest and highest continent on Earth. Anything living there must survive some really extreme conditions. And because Antarctica is the last major area of the world to be explored, it is one of the least disturbed ecosystems on the planet.

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Rights: Katja Riedel
Published: 21 June 2007Updated: 21 March 2017Size: 1.47 MB
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