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Antarctica Wildlife Images can be downloaded here from the BAS image collection here: Title slide/background templates can be downloaded from the BAS Intranet here:

Antarctic Penguins Penguins are the most common bird in the Antarctic Of the 17 different types of penguin, only two (emperor and Adélie) make the Antarctic continent their true home Chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins breed on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula King penguins only breed on the warmer, more northerly sub-Antarctic islands More info available at:

Emperor penguins

King penguins

Adélie penguins

Chinstrap penguin

Macaroni penguins

Antarctic Seals There are six Antarctic seal species: Leopard Ross Weddell Crabeater Fur Elephant Leopard, Ross, Weddell and Crabeater seals are ice habitat specialists, breeding on the sea ice in spring. Leopard and Ross seals tend to be solitary, whereas Weddell and Crabeater form loose breeding aggregations Antarctic fur seals and elephant seals are found north of the pack-ice zone and breed in dense colonies on beaches.

Leopard seal

Ross seal

Weddell seal

Fur seals

Elephant seals (females)

Elephant seal (male)

Humpback whale

Killer whale

Minke whale

Wandering albatrosses

Black-browed albatross

Grey-headed albatrosses

Light-mantled sooty albatross

Antarctic skua

Northern giant petrel

Arctic tern

Snow petrel

Sea stars and molluscs

Brachiopods

Diver

Icefish

Giant sea spider

Giant sponge and diver