With its enormous ice shelves, vast emptiness, and ethereal silence, Antarctica really is like nowhere else on earth. Its landscapes are a study in the color white: how it reflects light, accentuates mountains, and crumbles atop the sea. However, it’s often the animals who leave the biggest impression. There are tuxedo-clad penguins that belly-surf out of the ocean to guard eggs from soaring skuas. Then there are humpback whales that breach from steel-grey fjords, and the doe-eyed Weddell seals that ham it up for distant cameras while resting on wondering ice floes.