But once the ice retreats and the permafrost thaws, heavy winds, waves, and freshwater currents can pummel the islands from all directions, making them rounder and smaller than in other environments.
Exhumations are to begin when the ground thaws, probably in March.
Debris in the foundation, which is filled with rocks, freezes and expands in the cold, then thaws and shrinks, so that the house moves up and down each year, sighing with the seasons.
As the spring weather thaws the sea ice around Antarctica, areas of open water surrounded by ice-polynyas-open up on the continental shelf.
When this normally permanently frozen ground thaws, the water in the lakes can seep through the soil, draining the lake.
And no matter which tillage or crop rotation system was used, nitrous oxide emissions peaked during spring thaws when the sun's rays began to warm the soil.
The boreal forest will creep northwards, for example, as the permafrost thaws and carbon fertilisation increases.
Winter always thaws into spingtime.
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