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An examination of the inhabitants of Antarctic.
Antarctica is surrounded by the strongest ocean current on the planet extending from the surface all the way to the sea floor. It's one of the many variables that keeps this continent isolated - and the coldest place on Earth.
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Our southernmost continent is the coldest place on Earth. The South Pole has just two seasons, summer, and winter. The warmer months draw a myriad of wondrous animals to Antarctic waters. Winter transforms Antarctica into a vastly different place.
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It's barely fathomable that Antarctica was once covered in lush rainforest. The animals that roamed it knew no boundary between the southern continents of today. At one time, they were all connected.
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The Antarctic continent itself, holds about 29 million cubic kilometers of ice. 90% of all the ice on the planet. Deep in the center, conditions are so extreme that few forms of life, beyond the microscopic, survive.
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