The largest wilderness on Earth.

Antarctica is the largest wilderness on Earth. Its glaring white mountains are epic. Its seas are teeming with life. It has a breathtaking presence with moods that shift between calmness and nature’s raw-power. You can’t help but feel insignificant here.

Antarctica - the largest wilderness on Earth.

Despite silently lying at the end of the earth, Antarctica is changing – and it is because of us.

Human impacts on oceans and cryosphere – the planet’s snow and ice – are significant and growing. The rapid melting underway in Antarctica will have far-reaching impacts on biodiversity, commercial fisheries and global climate regulation. Increased greenhouse gas emissions, from burning fossil fuels in places such as Australia, have altered large-scale oceanic and atmospheric processes and accelerated ice loss around the continent.

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