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Employees try to remove fur seals from a working area, in the Amsterdam Island, part of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, on December 29, 2022. The research station at Martin-de-Vivies, is the only settlement on the island and is the seasonal home to about thirty researchers and staff studying biology, meteorology, and geomagnetics. The island is home to the endemic Amsterdam albatross. Purest air on earth. Amsterdam is a world benchmark for atmospheric analysis. The site has exceptional qualities: distance of more than 3,000 km from any continent and any human activity. In this area of the southern hemisphere, the air masses are particularly pure and mixed because depressions can easily circumnavigate the island without being stopped. (Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP Photo)
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