5130 x 3408 px | 43,4 x 28,9 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2007
Ubicazione:
antarctica
Altre informazioni:
The crabeater seal, is one of the most remarkable, though least known, of the mammals of the world. At a population of 8 to 50 million (LAWS 1973), it is perhaps the "second most numerous large species of mammals on Earth, after humans." More than one in every two seals in the world is a Crabeater Seal and the population biomass of Crabeaters is about four times that of all other pinnipeds put together Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. Situated in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million km², it is the fifth-largest continent in area. The name Antarctica comes from the Greek antarktikos, meaning "opposite to the Arctic. On average, Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents.
