By early March, Antarctica is readying itself for winter, and this gloomy but atmospheric point on the map seemed entirely fitting for the end of the season and the end of our voyage south.

在三月上旬的时候，南极已经准备进入冬天。地图上这个阴沉但气氛独特的地点显得完全与季节的末尾合拍，也与我们南极航行的终点合拍。

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'I don't understand this,' Bjaaland thought. 'Why is Amundsen talking about the North Pole, with a map of Antarctica behind him?'

“我听不懂这些话，”比阿兰德心想，“阿蒙森身后挂着南极洲地图，为什么却大谈北极呢？”

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There are three popular map projections in Antarctica-Polar Stereographic projection, Transverse Mecator projection and Lambert conformal Conic projection. They are all conformal.

南极地区常用的地图投影方式有：极方位立体投影、横轴墨卡托投影、兰伯特正形圆锥投影等三种等角投影。

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Looking at a modern day map of Antarctica gives clues about its first explorers.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Further study will involve the team seeking to determine the potential diversity of extreme psychrophilic ("cold-loving") bacteria living inland in Antarctica, that in turn will establish a map of the distribution of bacteria across the continent.

BBC: Viewpoint: The last great polar challenge