Atlas8 min read
Amsterdam Island: Kelp at the Bottom of the World
Giant kelp at the warm edge of its range, albatrosses that breed nowhere else, and a scientists-only island: a guide to the kelp coast of Amsterdam Island.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
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13 articles
Atlas6 min read
New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands: The Kelp Kingdom Nobody Visits
South of New Zealand lie wind-torn islands wrapped in some of Earth's densest kelp forests. A guide to the Auckland and Campbell islands' wild underwater world.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
The Beagle Channel: Kelp Where Darwin First Saw the Forest
At the foot of South America, one glaciated channel carries giant kelp, sea lions and two centuries of history between two oceans. A Coastal Atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Gough Island: Kelp at the Edge of the World Heritage Map
A windswept volcanic island in the sub-Antarctic South Atlantic, ringed by giant kelp and breeding seabirds — and part of one of the most remote marine reserves on Earth.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Heard & McDonald Islands: Kelp Beneath an Active Volcano
Glaciers, an active volcano and some of Earth's loneliest kelp — a guide to Heard and McDonald Islands, Australia's subantarctic World Heritage group.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas11 min read
Macquarie Island: Giant Kelp on the World's Most Remote Threatened Listing
Macquarie Island's giant kelp forests became the first marine ecosystem listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List — a subantarctic warning in full view.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
Marion Island: Kelp, Mice and Albatross in the Roaring Forties
A volcanic subantarctic outpost ringed by giant kelp, albatross skies and elephant-seal beaches — and the mice that threatened it all. An atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
New Zealand Sea Lion (Rāpoka): The Rarest Sea Lion in the Surf
Rāpoka, the New Zealand sea lion, is one of the world's rarest sea lions — a subantarctic breeder slowly recolonising the mainland coast. Its biology and comeback story.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
The Snares: Bull Kelp in New Zealand's Subantarctic
Granite islands wrapped in storm-built bull kelp, penguins found nowhere else and no landings allowed: inside the Snares Islands' kelp coast, 200 km south of Bluff.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
South Georgia: Giant Kelp at the Edge of the Ice
A ring of giant kelp fringes South Georgia's glaciated mountains — and around it, whales, seals and penguins are crawling back from industrial ruin.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
The Strait of Magellan: Kelp at the End of the World
Inside the subantarctic kelp forests of the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego: cold clear water, drifting kelp highways, and science at the southern frontier.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Atlas8 min read
Prince Edward Islands: South Africa's Subantarctic Kelp Outpost
Marion and Prince Edward Islands hold giant kelp and bull kelp in the Furious Fifties — a coastal atlas guide to South Africa's wild, fiercely protected subantarctic outpost.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas8 min read
Crozet Islands: Subantarctic Kelp Kingdoms of the Indian Ocean
Giant kelp beds ring the Crozet Islands beneath some of the greatest penguin and albatross colonies on Earth — a coastal atlas guide to France's remote subantarctic.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·