On the Antarctic island of South Georgia, in
February, toward the middle of what passes for summer at the bottom of
the world, I hurried through the ruined whaling station of Grytviken.
I had an appointment at the British Antarctic Survey
station on the opposite side of King Edward Cove. I was to interview a
marine ecologist working on krill. I did not want to be late.
The keystone of the South Georgia ecosystem, the secret to
the miraculous abundance of wildlife on this stark, cold, windswept
island—the foundation, indeed, for almost all vertebrate life in the
Antarctic—is krill.
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