What the World’s Largest Marine Preserve Means for Antarctica’s Animals – And How You Can Help Too | One Green Planet

What the World’s Largest Marine Preserve Means for Antarctica’s Animals – And How You Can Help Too | One Green Planet: "Every year as it approaches winter on the Antarctic continent, the sun dips gradually lower toward the horizon, it’s parabola lengthening to an ellipse before finally dipping beneath the surface, plunging the southern tip of the planet into a perennial twilight.  With the warmth of the sun rescinded, the continent roughly doubles in size as the seas directly adjacent freeze into a block of ice ten feet deep, only to melt and shatter into a kaleidoscope of geometries as varied as the Antarctic is bleak.

You might think that such a desolate landscape might be bereft of much life, but the Antarctic supports several rare and unique species, some of which can only be found on the continent."