Working on King George Island to understand climate change impacts

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t is questionable whether or not anyone truly understands what the overall impact of climate change will be.

However, scientists are doing all they can to determine some of the elusive answers.

And they are doing in strange and largely inaccessible places.

Eric Campbell has written about what is happening on the “strangest continent”, Antarctica where every summer, hundreds of scientists fly down from the bottom of South America to the island's gravel runway operated by the Chilean Air Force.

King George Island is a remote speck of ice-covered mountains at the far north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is also the nearest thing in Antarctica to an accessible destination.

The ABC story - “Scientists on 'strangest continent' Antarctica investigate effect of climate change on animals” – that even with the extreme cold, frequent storms and constant stench of penguin poo, it is paradise for scientists.