The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, known locally as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and historically as Graham Land in Britain and Palmer Peninsula in the United States. It covers about 522,000 square kilometers, roughly 80 percent ice covered, and carries the mildest climate anywhere on the continent under Antarctic tundra vegetation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Audubon's own text names the Antarctic broadly rather than the Peninsula by name; the Arctic tern's pole-to-pole migration takes it into Antarctic waters including the Peninsula region during the austral summer.
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Source FishBase: Chaenocephalus aceratus (FishBase)
NOAA's own text names Antarctic waters near the ice edge broadly rather than the Peninsula specifically; the Antarctic Peninsula's ice-edge waters sit within this described Southern Ocean summer feeding range.
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The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
- Biogeographic realm: antarctic (derived from location stated in entity description)
- Open Questions: Open Question: Antarctic Peninsula
Hosts: Antarctic Krill, Article text
Antarctic krill are found in the seas surrounding the peninsula and the rest of the continent.
Hosts: Southern Elephant Seal, Article text
The seals include: leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), the huge southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus).
Hosts: Weddell Seal, Article text
The seals include: leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), the huge southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus).
Hosts: Crabeater Seal, Article text
The crabeater seal spends most of its life in the same waters feeding on krill.
Hosts: Brown skua, Article text
storm-petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), imperial shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps), snowy sheathbill (Chionis alba), the large south polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki), brown skua (Catharacta lönnbergi), kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), and Antarctic tern (Sterna
Hosts: Chinstrap Penguin, Article text
Penguin species found on the peninsula, especially near the tip and surrounding islands, include the chinstrap penguin, emperor penguin, gentoo penguin and the Adélie penguin.
Hosts: King Penguin, Article text
Also present are the Antarctic petrel, Antarctic shag, king penguin, macaroni penguin, and Arctic tern.
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some Arctic Terns may migrate farther than any other birds, going from the high Arctic to the Antarctic.
Blue Whale (NOAA Fisheries)
NOAA FisheriesHosts: Blue Whale, IntroductionQuote, Hosts: Blue Whale, Introduction
In the Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic blue whales occur mainly in relatively high latitude waters south of the "Antarctic Convergence" and close to the ice edge in summer.
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WikipediaHosts: Macaroni Penguin, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 346048, target E266783Quote, Hosts: Macaroni Penguin, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 346048, target E266783
The macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula.
Humpback Whale (Wikipedia)
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A study undertaken in May 2009 found a super-aggregation of krill in Wilhelmina Bay, on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a large number of humpback whales feeding on the krill.
FishBase: Chaenocephalus aceratus (FishBase)
FishBaseHosts: Blackfin Icefish, DistributionQuote, Hosts: Blackfin Icefish, Distribution
Southern Ocean: in the vicinity of Bouvet Island, Scotia Sea, and northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Open Question: Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula's own Wikipedia entry states that the IPCC has been unable to determine the greatest potential effect on sea level rise that glaciers in the region may cause.
What would resolve this Long-term glaciological monitoring and ice-sheet modeling of the peninsula's glacier mass balance under different warming scenarios.
GlaciologyAntarctic Peninsula (Wikipedia)
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