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Adelaide Island,
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Adélie Land,
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Adélie penguins,
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Dumont d'Urville colony,
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,
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metabolism and breeding,
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,
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numbers,
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Ross Island colony,
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serial monogamy,
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Agabi, Karim,
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Ainley, David,
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Akademik Sergey Vavilov,
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Aladdin's Cave,
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Aldrin, Buzz,
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Aleutian Islands,
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Alexandria,
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algae,
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Allan Hills,
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,
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,
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,
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Almirante Brown Station,
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Alps,
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,
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altitude sickness,
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,
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Amundsen, Roald,
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Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station,
see
South Pole

Amundsen Sea Embayment,
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,
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Anderson, John,
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Anderson, Kent,
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anorthite,
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Antarctic Circle, crossing,
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Antarctic Treaty,
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Antarctopelta oliveroi,
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Apollo programme,
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Armstrong, Neil,
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Asgard Range,
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asteroids,
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Astrolabe,
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Atacama Desert,
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Atwood, Margaret,
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Augustin, Laurent,
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aurora australis
,
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Axel Heiberg Glacier,
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bacteria,
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cyanobacteria,
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nanobacteria,
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Baden-Powell, Lord,
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balloon flights,
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Bartolomei, Rita,
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,
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,
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Battle of Waterloo,
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Battleship Promontory,
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Bay of Whales,
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BBC World Service,
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Beacon Valley,
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Beardmore Glacier,
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Bell, Robin,
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Belléoud, Didier,
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Bellingshausen Station,
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berms,
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Bertrand, Yann-Arthus,
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Big Bang,
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Bjaaland, Olav,
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black holes,
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,
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Blankenship, Don,
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blue ice,
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blue light,
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Borges, Jorge Luis,
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Bowers, Birdie,
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Bowser, Sam,
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Brandt, Richard,
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Bresnahan, Dave,
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brine,
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Brown, Kirsty,
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Brown Peninsula,
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Bull, Colin,
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Bunger Hills Oasis,
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bunny boots,
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Bush, George W.,
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Byrd, Admiral Richard,
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Byrd Glacier,
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Calvaresi, Camillo,
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Canada Glacier,
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Cap Prud'homme,
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Cape Adare,
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Cape Bird,
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Cape Crozier,
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Cape Disappointment,
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Cape Evans,
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,
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Cape Horn,
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Cape Royds,
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carbon dioxide,
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carbon monoxide,
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carbonates,
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Carpenter, John,
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Carroll, Lewis,
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Cassidy, Bill,
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Chassigny,
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Chastel, Olivier,
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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley,
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Chicago World's Fair,
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children,
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Chilingarov, Artur N.,
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Christchurch, New Zealand,
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,
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churches,
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clams,
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Clinton, Bill,
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colonisation,
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Commonwealth Mountains,
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Concordia Station,
see
Dome C

continental drift,
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contraction-crack polygons,
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Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB),
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cosmic rays,
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crabs and lobsters,
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Crary Lab aquarium,
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Crylophosaurus ellioti,
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Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe,
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dark energy,
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Day After Tomorrow, The,
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Deception Island,
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Denton, George,
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Denver,
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Desolate Island,
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Devries, Art,
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Dickens, Charles,
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dinosaurs,
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Discovery,
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Dissostichus mawsoni,
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dog livers,
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dogs, ban on,
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–
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Domack, Eugene,
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,
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Dome A (Kunlun Station),
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Dome C (Concordia Station)

ice cores and climate change,
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ice coring,
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relationships,
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temperatures,
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under-ice lakes,
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women,
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Doran, Peter,
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Drake Passage,
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Dufour, Marianne,
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Dumont d'Urville, Adèle,
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Dumont d'Urville, Jules,
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Dumont d'Urville base
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penguin colonies,
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Dunbar, Rob,
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Dunbar, Steve,
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Duraffourg, Jean-Louis,
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Earth

iron core,
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life on,
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magnetic field,
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orbit around Sun,
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rotation,
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earthquakes,
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El Nakhla El Baharia,
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Elephant Island,
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Elephant Moraine,
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emperor penguins,
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breeding cycle,
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eggs and embryology,
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metabolism and breeding,
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metabolism and diving,
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numbers,
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serial monogamy,
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Endurance,
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Engelhardt, Hermann,
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Engle, Joe,
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Epic of Gilgamesh
,
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Erebus Ice Tongue,
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Esperanza Station,
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Evans, Edgar,
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Exasperation Inlet,
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Executive Committee Range,
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Explorers Cove,
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Falklands War,
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Fave, Jean-Paul,
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feldspar,
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firn,
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firn quakes,
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fish, antifreeze,
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floods, under-ice,
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foraminifera,
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Forane 141b,
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forests, petrified,
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Fountain, Andrew,
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Fram,
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frazil,
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Fricker, Helen Amanda,
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frost nip,
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gamma-rays,
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Garrott, Bob,
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George V, King, and Queen Mary,
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Gilbert, Caroline,
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glaciers,
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see also
ice streams

global conveyor belt,
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glycol,
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–
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Glyptonotus antarcticus,
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Godon, Patrice,
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Goldin, Dan,
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Grand Canyon,
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,
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Great Ice Barrier,
see
Ross Ice Shelf

green flash,
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greenhouse gases,
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Greenland,
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,
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growlers,
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Grundlock, Sarah,
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