Palmer station on the continent of Antarctica

The first day at noon we arrived in Antarctica and stopped for a moment to raise the guests of the American research center at Palmer Station. There were seven people from different professions to come to the ship. They gave a presentation what is done in Antarctica, how and what activities and how long they stay here. Antarctica itself is a continent full of the most versatile … as the coldest continent, the highest, hottest, most extreme and others. To be able to visit places “sacred world”, the necessary special requirements and all entrants must comply with regulations or international agreements on sustainability Antarctica.

Because this is the continent where the only measure of all phenomena, natural phenomenon in the other hemisphere. Including how the Ozone hole, how the melting of glaciers and more. As revealed by researchers at Palmer Station. Their activities here is to examine or monitor the marine ecosystem, study the atmosphere and the impact of increased ultraviolet radiation on marine life and society.

His research includes climate change condition ice and snow. This causes Adele Penguin population decline as much as 64% ie 3300 pairs since 1974. expected to be extinct by the year 2014 because of melting ice, which is the habitat of their lives.

Today we visit the island of Booth Island in the Antarctic peninsula. Circles see the beauty of the ice-covered mountain, only the visible parts of rock, using a telescope we can see the approach that here there is a group of penguins, they live in a place which is rather high and can be found by examining the snow line made from the water.