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When I first visited Antarctica on an Argentine supply ship in 1986, I knew little about the continent. Mostly I imagined that it was a place where explorers had suffered and thought that it was huge, flat and boring – perhaps perked up by a penguin waddling here or there.
Imagine my surprise, then,...