Antarctica is not only a spectacularly beautiful place but it also holds the key to understanding Earth’s past climate and is crucial for understanding its future. It’s the driest, windiest, coldest, highest continent on Earth and holds 70% of the world’s freshwater, and yet it is classed as a desert! With ice up to 4770m thick, Antarctica has the longest continuous record of Earth’s changing climate and the waters surrounding Antarctica help regulate the temperature of the oceans all around the world.

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