Now packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated sixth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, full accounts of interesting places, spectacular landscapes, and local plants and wildlife— from penguins and other seabirds to whales, seals, and myriad mammals. A definitive field guide to Antarctica, this book caters to visitors traveling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat. Written by experienced Antarctic scientists and travel guides who are recognized experts in the continent's wildlife, conservation, and political history, every page offers gorgeous color photographs of the great white south. This new edition pays special attention to explaining the threats to Antarctic conservation, including from climate change, global warming, and microplastics pollution, and includes tips on how visitors can minimize their own impact and help preserve this unique continent.

Craig Franklin , PhD (Author), Brisbane, Queensland (Australia) - Craig Franklin is a professor in zoology in the School of Biological Sciences , The University of Queensland, Australia. He has made more than 30 trips to Antarctica, including ten research expeditions as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme. He has published over 260 scientific works, including papers in journals Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change. His research focuses on how animals such as fish, frogs and crocodiles can survive and function in extreme and hostile environments. Internationally he is recognised as Peter Carey is a zoologist and educational tourism consultant who has worked in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1983. He has conducted research as a scientist with the New Zealand Antarctic Programme and the Australian Antarctic Program, and worked as an expedition leader and lecturer on many Antarctic cruise ships. Peter is the director of the SubAntarctic Foundation for Ecosystems Research (www.subantarctic.com), a non-profit conservation organisation that is improving wildlife habitat in the Falkland Islands, and a Global Fellow of the Polar Institute of the Wilson Center. Craig Franklin is a professor in zoology in the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia. He has made more than 30 trips to Antarctica, including ten research expeditions as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme. He has published over 260 scientific works, including papers in journals Nature, Science, and Nature Climate Change. His research focuses on how animals such as fish, frogs, and crocodiles can survive and function in extreme and hostile environments. Internationally he is recognised as a leading proponent of the emerging field of conservation physiology, and several of his research projects assess the impact of human-induced environmental change on animals. His Antarctic research has looked at the impact of temperature increases on the physiology and survival of fish. He is a strong advocate of wildlife conservation and spends his annual holidays lecturing on cruise boats about the Antarctic ecosystem and its spectacular wildlife. Peter Carey is a zoologist and educational tourism consultant who has worked in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1983. He has conducted research as a scientist with the New Zealand Antarctic Programme and the Australian Antarctic Program, and worked as an expedition leader and lecturer on many Antarctic cruise ships. Peter is the director of the SubAntarctic Foundation for Ecosystems Research (www.subantarctic.com), a non-profit conservation organisation that is improving wildlife habitat in the Falkland Islands, and a Global Fellow of the Polar Institute of the Wilson Center. Craig Franklin is a professor in zoology in the School of Biological Sciences , The University of Queensland, Australia. He has made more than 30 trips to Antarctica, including ten research expeditions as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme. He has published over 260 scientific works, including papers in journals Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change. His research focuses on how animals such as fish, frogs and crocodiles can survive and function in extreme and hostile environments. Internationally he is recognised as a leading proponent of the emerging field of conservation physiology, and several of his research projects assess the impact of human-induced environmental change on animals. His Antarctic research has looked at the impact of temperature increases on the physiology and survival of fish. He is a strong advocate of wildlife conservation and spends his annual holidays lecturing on cruise boats about the Antarctic ecosystem and its spectacular wildlife. Peter Carey , PhD (Author), Christchurch, Canterbury (New Zealand) - Peter Carey is a zoologist and educational tourism consultant who has worked in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1983. He has

About the authors  Foreword  INTRODUCING ANTARCTICA  The frozen continent  Physical Antarctica  Importance of latitude  Big ice  Geology  Political Antarctica  PLACES  Ushuaia  Drake Passage  South Shetland Islands  Point Wild, Elephant Island  Deception Island  Whaler's Bay, Deception Island  Baily Head, Deception Island  Pendulum Cove, Deception Island  Half Moon Island  Hannah Point, Livingston Island  King George Island  Arctowski Station, King George Island  Yankee Harbour, Greenwich Island  Aitcho Islands Antarctic Peninsula  Antarctic Sound  Hope Bay  Brown Bluff  Paulet Island  Cuverville Island  Paradise Harbour  Waterboat Point, Paradise Harbour  Brown Station, Paradise Harbour  Neumayer Channel  Lemaire Channel  Port Lockroy  Neko Harbour  Petermann Island  Gerlache Strait  Falklands Islands  South Georgia Ross  Sea Cape  Adare Cape  Royds Cape  Evans McMurdo / Scott Base  Ross Ice Shelf  LIFE IN ANTARCTICA  The terrestrial ecosystem  Plants  Land-based animals  The marine ecosystem  The Southern Ocean  The marine food web  Plankton  Sea-floor-dwelling organisms  Fish  Other vertebrates  BIRDS  Sea birds  Black-browed albatross  Grey-headed albatross  Light-mantled sooty albatross  Royal albatross  Wandering albatross  Antarctic petrel  Cape petrel  Snow petrel  Southern giant petrel  White-chinned petrel  Wilson's storm petrel  Sooty shearwater  Southern fulmar  Antarctic prion  Antarctic shag  Kelp gull  Skua Antarctic tern  Snowy sheathbill  Penguins  Adé lie penguin  Chinstrap penguin  Emperor penguin  King penguin  Gentoo penguin  Macaroni penguin  Rockhopper penguin  Magellanic penguin  MAMMALS  Seals  Antarctic fur seal  Crabeater seal  Leopard seal  Southern elephant seal  Ross seal  Weddell seal  Whales  Blue whale  Humpback whale  Killer whale  Minke whale  THREATS TO ANTARCTIC CONSERVATION  The Antarctic Treaty  Conservation  Sealing  Whaling  Fishing  Invasion of alien species  Ozone depletion  Global warming Anthropogenic ocean acidification Plastics and microplastics pollution  Conservation status of wildlife  Guidelines for Visitors  Glossary  Photograph credits  Acknowledgements  Index