Life in the Freezer - The Door Closes

In the Antarctic winter, weather conditions are so extreme that most animals leave the continent. Temperatures can plummet to -70ÝC, the wind can rage at 300 kilometres an hour, and there is darkness for six months. Nevertheless, some animals stay, such as the emperor penguin, that groups together when the storm is howling, and seals, that hibernate in holes in the ice, where they live on fish that have a kind of natural anti-freeze in their blood. Other inhabitants of this impressive ice palace include wandering albatrosses and hungry killer whales, which find a home on the most unspoiled and most impassable continent in the