Macaroni Penguins from Antarctica

Antartica - Antarctic Continent
El Pinguino Macaroni (Eudyptes chrysolophus), con sus 70 cm de altura y cerca de 6 kg de peso, es el ejemplar mas grande de esta familia, junto al Pinguino Real.  Se caracteriza por su penacho de plumas amarillas y ojos rojos.   Realiza su reproduccion en la Peninsula Antartica y en islas de la region Subantartica, lejos de la presencia del hombre.  Su población se estima en mas de 11 millones de parejas, 5 millones de ellos en las islas Georgia del Sur.

From an on-line translator:
The Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus), with its 70 cm high and about 6 kg, is the largest specimen of this family together with the Pinguino Real. It is characterized by its tuft of yellow feathers and red eyes. Make your playback on the Antarctic Peninsula and sub-Antarctic islands, away from the presence of man. Its population is estimated at more than 11 million pairs, five million of them in South Georgia.

The back of the postcard also has this written on the back in English:

Macaroni Penguins form part of a family with six species, of which only two live in subantarctic and Antarctic waters, including this one.  The other four species live on islands in New Zealand waters. This species breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula and on Antarctic or subantarctic islands such as the South Shetland, South Georgia, Diego Ramirez, Noir and others.

Fotografia: Colin Monteath  / Daniel Bruhin W.

This postcard is postmarked in 2014 with two stamps from Chile.

Chile stamp 2011

Takona

Rapa Nui, 4 10

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The Rapa Nui are the native Polynesian inhabitants 

of Easter Island (a special territory of Chile). 

The traditional form of the Rapa Nui's body painting is called Takona. 

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Chile stamp 2013

The 3rd Anniversary of the 

Rescue of 33 Miners at the 

San José Mine,  $ 500

Icebergs off the South Pole, Antarctica

Postcard Book
The Earth From the Air
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Icebergs off the Adelie coast, South Pole

These drifting icebergs recently detached from the glacial platforms of Antarctica, as can be seen from their flat shape and the ice strata that are still visible on their jagged sides. Like the rest of the 480 cubic miles that detach every year from Antarctica, these icebergs will slowly be eroded by the winds and waves before disappearing. Antarctica is a place of extremes: temperatures reach as low as -94 degrees F (-70 C), and winds reach speeds of 200 miles (300 km) an hour. The continent has an area of 5,500 square miles (14 million km2) and contains 90 percent of the ice and 70 percent of the freshwater reserves of the planet. Antarctica has been governed since 1959 by the Washington Treaty, which gives it international status and restricts its uses to scientific activities. The Russian station at Vostok has extracted, from a depth of 11,800 feet (3,623 m), chunks of ice that have made possible the reconstruction of more than 420,000 years of history of the climate and atmospheric composition. The atmosphere's current content of carbon dioxide - the main gas responsible for global warming - is higher than it has been for 160,000 years.

unused, from 2002

Antarctica - South Pole Station

Antarctica
South Pole Station
Postmarked Jan 2005
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The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is a U.S. research station at the South Pole, in Antarctica.

The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is the southernmost continually inhabited place on the planet. Its name honors Roald Amundsen who reached the South Pole in 1911, and Robert F. Scott who reached the South Pole in 1912.
It was constructed in November 1956 to support the International Geophysical Year in 1957, and has been continuously occupied since then. It currently lies within 100 meters (330 feet) of the Geographic South Pole.

Snow accumulation is about 60–80 millimeters per year .
The station stands at an elevation of 2,835 meters (9,301 ft) on interior Antarctica's nearly featureless ice sheet, about 2,850 meters (9,350 ft) thick at that location.
Recorded temperature has varied between −13.6 °C (7.52 °F) and −82.8 °C (−117 °F).