虽然南半球也见证着类似的融冰影响，但是格陵兰冰盖恐怕尤其易受损伤的，因为比起南极洲冰盖，它距寒冷的极地要远得多。

While similar melting effects are being measured in the southern hemisphere, the Greenland sheet may be uniquely vulnerable, lying much further from the chill of the pole than Antarctica's sheets.

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南纬60度线距南极点大约2000英里，它环绕地球，刚好错过南美洲的最南端，远在好望角和新西兰之南。

This line, running around the globe some 2, 000 miles from the South Pole itself, just misses the lower tip of South America, and is well below the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand.

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毛里求斯的最南端，巨浪拍打着海岸的峭壁，凉爽的微风阵阵拂过：也许这毫不奇怪，因为距这里最近的陆地是南极州。

A cooling breeze wafts over the southernmost tip of the island of Mauritius, as huge waves pound the cliffs: not surprising, perhaps, because the nearest landfall is Antarctica.

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