Now packed with even more breathtaking colour 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 travelling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat. Written by experienced Antarctic scientists and travel guides who are recognised experts in the continent's wildlife, conservation, and political history, every page offers gorgeous colour 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 minimise their own impact and help preserve this unique continent.
By:
Craig Franklin,
Peter Carey
Imprint: Awa Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Edition: 6th Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 178mm,
Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781927249888
ISBN 10: 1927249880
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 01 March 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 IslandsAntarctic 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 Adélie 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 warmingAnthropogenic ocean acidificationPlastics and microplastics pollution Conservation status of wildlife Guidelines for Visitors Glossary Photograph credits Acknowledgements Index
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. 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.
