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Looking through this iceberg's reflection in the Antarctic water, you can see the iceberg below the surface—some 90% of its total volume.
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The Arctic and The Antarctic

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The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
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A Trip South to Antarctica’s Ross Sea

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A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.
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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

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A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.
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Humpback Whale in Antarctic Waters

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A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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Aerial view of two bowhead whales swimming in the ocean.
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Bowhead Whale: One Species at a Time

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The Antarctic minke whale is the only baleen whale found in the icy waters of the Antarctic.
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Antarctic Minke Whale

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The bowhead whale has a massive, bow-shaped skull.
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Bowhead Whales

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Calanus hyperboerus is the preferred food for Bowhead whales.
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Arctic Copepod

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