1. Antarctic Peninsula 7 has the most moderate climate.

2. We left the Antarctic Peninsula and sailed, as Shackleton had, just offshore to the South Shetland Islands, from which the explorer had launched his desperate run for South Georgia.

3. I can – sort of – understand why the majority of people want a shortish hop to the Antarctic peninsula.

4. In recent years, there is an obvious warming trend in the Antarctic Peninsula, however an obvious colding trend in the southeast pole coast, and their variation shows obvious anti-phase.

5. "Eighty-seven percent of the alpine glaciers are in retreat, " said Martinson of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

6. A solitary chinstrap penguin stands at attention on the rocky shore of the Antarctic Peninsula.

7. Scientists studying Antarctic penguin populations have recently noticed a trend in their numbers: While Ross Sea colonies like this one have grown, colonies on the Antarctic peninsula have shrunk.

8. Runners arrive by boat on King George Island just off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

9. New observations of "pack ice" killer whales roaming the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula show they dine almost exclusively on Weddell seals,(/antarctic peninsula.html) which make up just 15 per cent of the seal population.

10. I can—sort of—understand why the majority of people want a 52)shortish 53)hop to the Antarctic Peninsula.

11. To travelers arriving from the south, voyaging up from the Antarctic Peninsula, the island seems almost tropically lush.

12. Martinson has been collecting ocean water heat content data for more than 18 years at Palmer Island, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula.