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1 December 2009
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To investigate Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in order to discover the natural forces that drive the poles.

You can complete this mission in either of the two ways below.
You can play the Flash game, The Icebreaker, or you can try the Poles Quiz.

You are science officer aboard the icebreaker ship Ice Queen and will be conducting experiments in the wild and freezing Southern Ocean.

Your goal is to discover properties of water and ice and look into freezing, water density and ocean currents. You’ll also be looking at what would happen at the poles if the greenhouse effect took hold.

Along the way, watch out for any interesting polar animals beneath the waves or living on the ice.

There’s another way to explore the poles (and it doesn't require a plug-in).
Answer 20 questions and find your way to the icy ends of the earth.

You’ll quickly become an expert on all things chilly, and learn about the properties of water and ice. Discover how important the poles are to the climate and reveal the potential devastation of global warming.



	Worldwide, roughly 27 million tons of fish, mammals, turtles, birds and other marine life are thrown back dead or dying into the sea each year as unwanted fishing by-catch.

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