North-west White Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area
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north-west-white-island-antarctic-specially-protected-area-302-18017170
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North-west White Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area
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The North-west White Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area comprises a 142 km2 area of coastal shelf ice on the north-west side of White Island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica.The site has been designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area because it supports an unusual small breeding population of Weddell seals, which is not only the most southerly known, but which has also been physically isolated from other populations by the advance of the McMurdo and Ross ice shelves. The first
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-west_White_Island_Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Area
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2020-12-31T05:56:52Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Weddell_seal.jpg","width":1816,"height":1196}
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