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Underneath it, there’s about almost a metre of sea ice, but it’s very slushy because it’s getting late in the ice season now,” says Mortimer, who has been coming to Antarctica for 33 years.

Though the sea ice pack around the South Pole had steadily expanded up until 2015, its area suddenly plummeted in 2016. The scale of the Antarctic sea ice reached a record low in 2023.