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Three people with backpacks walk across a snow-dusted stony plain towards a bank of low cloud, with a flat-topped rocky peak rising above it under a deep blue sky. — A cloudy day in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Marissa Tremblay

Video of a shallow bay packed with broken white ice floes glinting under a bright sun, with a dark cliff on the left and low cloud over the horizon. — Tidewater changes in Antartic Peninsula Gonzalo Barcaza

Snow petrel, a white bird, flying over a stony plateau with patches of snow, in front of dark snow-streaked mountains and a frozen lake under heavy grey cloud. — Life at the end of the world Thale Damm-Johnsen

Satellite image of a large iceberg, roughly triangular and white, newly separated from a vast ice shelf by a dark curved strip of open sea scattered with small ice fragments, with cloud at the top left. — Iceberg A-81, Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica - 9 February 2023 Niklas Jordan

Satellite image close-up of a large white iceberg broken away from an ice shelf, separated by a dark channel of open water filled with floating chunks of ice. — Iceberg A-81, Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica - 9 February 2023 Niklas Jordan

Broad snow-covered volcano with a small white plume at its summit, rising above icy slopes and blue-shadowed snowfields, with a rocky snow-dusted ridge in the foreground. — Mt Erebus from Castle Rock Ole Zeising

Dark silhouettes of mountains along the horizon beneath a sky striped in horizontal bands of orange, red and grey after sunset. — Sunset in Antarctica Fabien Darrouzet

Wide, flat snowfield rippled by wind, with dark rocky mountains partly covered in snow on the horizon and a sky full of white patchy clouds. — Antarctica not far from the Belgian Princess Elisabeth station Fabien Darrouzet

Two people in red standing on rocky ground in front of a towering vertical ice cliff of a glacier, under a bright sun in a deep blue sky. — What a glacier !!!!!! Livio Ruggiero

White and red helicopter flying low over a barren, stony valley floor, with snow-capped mountains and a glacier under a blue sky with streaks of cloud. — Time to go! Bye-Bye Taylor Valley! Livio Ruggiero

Frozen lake surface of clear blue ice crossed by a web of white cracks, stretching towards dark mountains streaked with snow under a deep blue sky. — Lake Fryxell , Taylor Valley. Livio Ruggiero

People in red and blue clothing raising a tall weather station mast held by guy wires on a snowy plain, with a red twin-engine aircraft parked behind under a blue sky. — Erecting a tall automatic weather station high on the Antarctic Peninsula Andrew Elvidge

Dark still water crowded with flat, angular plates of sea ice, the gaps between them mirroring a bright setting sun and pinkish-brown clouds, while the rough ice itself shows no reflection. — Sea ice in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica Andrew Elvidge

Tall white cloud curling over like a breaking wave above a snow-covered mountain crest, with a flat sea of cloud beyond and a blue sky streaked with thin cloud. — Mountain wave cloud over the Antarctic Peninsula Andrew Elvidge

Large flock of petrels flying across a clear blue sky above a dark blue sea, some close enough to show pale bodies and spread wings, most just small dark specks. — Flying penguins, the petrels Da Eun Lee

Sparkling snow surface seen at ground level, its crystals glinting in sunlight, with blurred snow-covered hills under a deep blue sky behind. — Shine bright like a diamond Da Eun Lee

Broad snow-covered volcanic mountain rising from a flat white icy plain under a clear blue sky, with a pale gibbous moon hanging to the left of its summit. — The Moon of the midnight sun Da Eun Lee

Two weathered white icebergs, one low and rounded, one tall and pointed, joined by a pale turquoise underwater ice shelf in a grey sea, with several seabirds flying over them. — Old Iceberg as habitat Fabian Reiser

Flat-topped tabular iceberg in silhouette on a sea of broken ice, with the setting sun glowing orange behind it beneath fiery red clouds. — Burning Sky during Sunset Fabian Reiser

View from the bow of a red-hulled ship with a white mast and people on deck, heading through a narrow channel of glassy water with ice floes between snowy peaks. — The sound of Silence Ben Moat

Huge colony of king penguins on a beach and green grassland, with crowds of birds in the foreground, below a glacier and snow-streaked mountains. — The Retreating Glaciers behind Half a Million Penguins Wuquan Cui

View through a small aircraft window of snowy mountains and a dark ridge above icy water, the cabin dark around it and an orange jacket glowing in the corner. — The Arrowsmith Peninsula seen from a Twin Otter window Ella Gilbert

Gentoo penguin with white chest and black head standing among brown boulders in falling snow, framed by blurred rocks in the foreground. — A Window to Fire and Ice Wuquan Cui

Two chinstrap penguins, black and white with a thin black line under the chin, standing on mossy rocks above a blue bay, with more penguins on the slope and snow-capped cliffs beyond. — Linking Sea to Land Daniel Wasner

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