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• Fan trace - an arrangement for harnessing sledge dogs
• Fast ice - a solid sheet of sea ice attached to either land ice or shore
• Featherbed - A quaking bog on raised beach terraces of Macquarie Island; hazardous
• Fin whale - Balaenoptera physalus - a member of the baleen whale suborder
• Fire prevention
• Fish
• Fixed ice - see fast ice
• Flense/flench/flensing - to remove the blubber from a seal or whale in order to extract the oil
• Floe - a piece of free-floating sea ice, which can vary in size enormously
• Flora
• Flying Birds
• Food
• Frazil ice - the first stage of sea-ice growth
• Frostbite - damage to skin and flesh caused by freezing, which can lead to amputation of fingers and/or toes
• Fur seal - any seal of the genus Arctocephalus, especially Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella