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The contents Prologue<br />
1. The continent at the end of the world<br />
2. Brief history of an arduous discovery<br />
3. Palaeoclimate: the importance of the Antarctic<br />
4. Lessons in survival: Mars on Earth<br />
5. Glaciers in perpetual movement: where the icebergs come from<br />
6. The Antarctic ice field<br />
7. Microbes<br />
8. Ice, algae, krill<br />
9. Life in the dark depths: an explosion of diversity beneath the ice<br />
10. Birds at the end of the world<br />
11. The large mammals of the white continent<br />
12. Climate change: not so isolated<br />
13. What happened at Larsen?<br />
14. Organisms and climate change<br />
15. The ozone layer and the Antarctic<br />
16. Pollutants in the unpolluted place<br />
17. The last resource<br />
18. Remote fishing grounds<br />
19. Ecotourism and invasive species<br />
20. The Antarctic Treaty<br />
21. Antarctic bases<br />
22. Living on an ocean-going icebreaker<br />
23. Visions from the last virgin bastion<br />
Epilogue
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