http://www.wanderlustcharters.com/port/Newsletter/tabid/86/EntryId/20/BVI-Rated-Top-Destination.aspx
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Deception Island Hot Springs, Antarctica. Deception Island, Deception Island Anarticain the Antarctic Peninsula, has natural springs that offer bathers an other worldly experience: Amidst the ice and snow, in a setting where you can watch 'bergs sailing past, you can immerse yourself in waters delightfully warm. One minute you're shivering in your polar fleece, the next you're swimming in what might as well be bath water.
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crabs-hither-shrimp-thither
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In the waters off Antarctica at the southernmost seafloor vents where hot water percolates from below, piles of hairy crabs swarm in the thousands.
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Antarctica - Wojciech Dabrowski
Antarctic Hot Springs Yields Ghostly New Species
JAN 3, 2012 03:00 AM ET // BY ERIC NIILER
Antarctic Hot Springs Yields Ghostly New Species : Discovery News
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A newly found deep-sea hot springs off Antarctica is host to an array of new species.
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I've read elsewhere that there are vast underground lakes of warm water under the surface along with a network of caverns, both in the ice and in the rocky soil. I have so far been unable to locate ultra-sound or infa-red maps of them - which could prove to be interesting.
http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/Blogs/AB4.html
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Sampling the only geothermal lagoon in Antarctica
The temperature at the mouth of the spring was 52.6°C on February 22, 2013.
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I've recently read that +50% of all of earth's "bio-mass" is in the soil, be it on land or under the sea floor.
Researchers Retrieve Water and Sediment Samples from Subglacial Lake Whillans
January 30, 2013
http://scitechdaily.com/researchers-retrieve-water-and-sediment-samples-from-subglacial-lake-whillans/
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An artist’s representation of the aquatic system scientists believe is buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Credit: Zina Deretsky, NSF
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I wonder if the planet Mars is much like the illustration above.