Icebergs, brash ice and mountainous terrain on the Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research plane operating in the Gullet, near Rothera Station near the Antarctic Peninsula, Polar Regions

Views King Edward Point near the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia in the South Atlantic

Adult bull southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) fighting for breeding grounds on South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean

Adult black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) on ice in the Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway

Ice formation detail in Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Close up view of hyaloclastite at Brown Bluff, a tuya, sub glacial volcano, on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata), on the wreck of the Guvernoren in the Enterprise Islands, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Adult bull southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) attempting to cool off by flinging sand on his back, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Views of the Chilean Antarctic refuge hut Jorge Bonnen Rivera situated on Hut Point on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

King penguins (aptenodytes patagonicus) right whale bay, south georgia, large group huddled together in snowy terrain

King penguins (aptenodytes patagonicus) right whale bay, south georgia, group huddled together in snowy terrain