Show bar pr ce simply dusty antarctic ocean crowded mr mackintosh who spent five years ears in discovery II 11 investigating Q the distribution and breeding of mammals and the formation and wanderings of icebergs in the antarctic seas has some interesting things to say about his observations vat ions glaciers flow from the land into the sea where a portion breaks off thus forming the giant icebergs that start their travels in the open waters sometimes these bergs appear to be black due to the fact that while still landlocked dust has settled on their surface to be superimposed with a thin layer of transparent ice it is curious that though the antarctic continent supports very little litile animal life the antarctic seas are more crowded with it than the tropical seas practically 90 per cent of the worlds supply of whale oil comes from whales harpooned in the antarctic ocean apart from whales however the inhabitants are mainly minute forms of marine life |