This was only the third vehicle crossing of Antarctica in history, and the first to get there and back.
The Emperor, the largest and most recognizable of the penguin species, is thought to be the most vulnerable of all life in Antarctica.
One of his biggest achievements was leading a major National Geographic expedition to Antarctica to film the largest iceberg in recorded history.
The rations they had packed for the arduous dog-sled journey across Antarctica proved insufficient, so Amundsen and his men decided to shoot and eat some of their dogs.
A group of gentoo penguins nests on an icy shore of Cierva Cove, Antarctica.
They spent weeks tracking and recording the hunting behaviour in the pack ice off the coast of the Antarctica Peninsula.
He added: 'I'm a professional photographer so I have experience in ice diving in places like Antarctica, the arctic, White Sea and dozens of mountain lakes.
I live on all the continents except Antarctica.
I live on all the continents in the world except Antarctica.
Only a few years after Darwin's return, Hooker was off on his own adventures, an ambitious slingshot around Antarctica aboard HMS Erebus and Terror.
She saw this ship passing by while sailing near Antarctica.
Tens of thousands of newly-born Adelie penguins are freezing to death recently as freak rain storms are hitting Antarctica.
That's why in 1978 when adventurer and businessman Dick Smith said that he was going to tow and iceberg all the way from Antarctica to Sydney Harbor, people were looking forward to it.
The next partial eclipse of the sun will occur on Nov. 25, 2011, but it will only be visible from Antarctica, Tasmania, New Zealand and southern south Africa.
Along the western Antarctica peninsula we have found large populations over like 30 miles of transects.
But, despite the genital shattering temperatures, people live in Antarctica.
"The reason for not returning the penguin directly to Antarctica is that Emperor penguins of this age are usually found north of Antarctica on pack ice and in the open ocean, " he said.
People who love the arctic for its beauty, not its riches, look enviously at Antarctica, which was carefully parcelled out by a treaty regime designed to stop the cold war spreading south.
As the Steve Irwin approached the equator last week, word that Japan would be sending a strengthened whaling fleet to Antarctica next month reached the bridge of the old Aberdeen-built customs vessel.
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