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Happy Penguin Awareness Day! Know your penguins: there are 18 species, many threatened or endangered; all found in the Southern Hemisphere, though the Galapagos live on the Equator. The Emperor penguin is the tallest at more than 1m #PenguinAwarenessDay pic Peppermint Narwhal
Today is #WorldPhotographyDay! Celebrating the great photographers of the heroic age of polar exploration; here's ‘Grotto in an Iceberg’ by Herbert Ponting; Terra Nova at anchor in the distance, 1911 #Antarctica #WorldPhotographyDay2021
1st recognition of the harmful effects of CFCs: #OnThisDay #OTD in 1974 Rowland & Molina published research showing Chlorofluorocarbons were destructive to Earth's ozone layer. An ozone hole over #Antarctica was discovered 11 years later https://t.co/HMJLLZBie1 @nature @UCIrvine
We hope you're enjoying your weekend! Here's a cartoon by @MatttDavies from @Newsday
Happy Penguin Awareness Day! Know your penguins! There are 18 different species, many threatened or endangered; all found in the Southern Hemisphere, though the Galapagos live on the Equator. The Emperor is the tallest at more than 1m #PenguinAwarenessDay pic Peppermint Narwhal
1st recognition of the harmful effects of CFCs: #OnThisDay #OTD in 1974 Rowland & Molina published research showing Chlorofluorocarbons were destructive to Earth's ozone layer. An ozone hole over #Antarctica was discovered 11 years later https://t.co/HMJLLZBie1 @nature @UCIrvine
A bold new wall map of Antarctica by @LINZLDS and @nzantarcticsoc; listen to @Auckland_Libs webinar, register here: https://t.co/LNlXNuhvzB Thanks to partners: @VicUniWgtn @AUTuni @otago @waikato @niwa_nz @gnsscience @NZSeaRise @AntarcticReport
A century of dogs - the first dogs in #Antarctica arrived #OnThisDay #OTD in 1899 when Carsten Borchgrevink landed 75 at Cape Adare. The last dogs were removed from the continent in 1994 to comply with the Antarctic Treaty; this photo by Frank Hurley from Mawson’s 1911 expedition
Happy Penguin Awareness Day! Know your penguins! There are 18 different species, many threatened or endangered; all found in the Southern Hemisphere, though the Galapagos live on the Equator. The Emperor is the tallest at more than 1m #PenguinAwarenessDay pic Peppermint Narwhal
Celebrating the best 2019 photos from #Antarctica thru the year. July: a grounded iceberg frames the rising moon; the view out on the sea ice, east of Davis Station on the #Antarctic coast, pic Neil Brown @AusAntarctic