Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion of the Antarctic seabed represents a true frontier, one of Earth s most pristine marine ecosystems, made suddenly accessible to exploration by the collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves, 12 and five years ago respectively.
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High resolution satellite imagery and field-based validation surveys have provided the first multi-year time series documenting emperor penguin populations.