ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses extremes in one of the most remote parts of the world, the Antarctic region. The author first discusses international treaty that governs the region and how that impacts climate extremes measured in the region. The author profiles three polar science researchers (Dr. John King of the British Antarctic Survey, Dr. Susan Solomon, Noble Prize winner and noted researcher of the ozone hole, and Dr. Matthew Lazzara, who is in charge of most of the automated weather stations in Antarctica). The latter part of the chapter deals with an interesting evaluation of a Brazilian weather station observation in which the researchers themselves identified a problem with the observation. The chapter is followed by a short interlude of three ‘freakish’ stories of Antarctica, a) the gruesome ‘blood falls,’ b) noctilucent clouds and c) the ozone hole.
