At its peak, during the 1999-2000 austral summer season, nearly 14,000 visitors went to Antarctica. |
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We were there in late February, almost the end of the austral summer, and fresh snow dusted the mountains. |
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The cruise season runs from November to March, the austral summer, and that's the only time it's possible to visit Antarctica. |
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More sedate visitors will enjoy poring over family treasures, such as old photos and maps, watching gauchos at work, or reading a book under the austral summer's midnight sun. |
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Our research team in Antarctica includes eight biologists who travel south every austral summer to study Weddell seals as they hunt beneath the sea ice. |
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The tourist season is the austral summer, when there's a minimum extent of sea ice, the chance of a few sunny days and relatively more pleasant sailing weather. |
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Their seasonal abundance trend correlates with their breeding period between the austral summer of January to March. |
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The Southern House Wren inhabits the austral extreme of Chile and Argentina. |
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Among the most notable animals in the archipelago are austral parakeets, sea gulls, guanacos, foxes, kingfishers, condors, king penguins, owls, and firecrown hummingbirds. |
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