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Figure 2. (A) MP concentrations (particles·L^-1) grouped by season (winter samples colored in blue, spring in green, and summer in red) and ice type (^*denotes landfast ice cores); and (B) presented as the total concentration of MPs per ice core delineated by region: BS, WS, QML, DAV, MS, and RS. MP: Microplastic; BS: Bellinghausen Sea; WS: Weddell Sea; QML: Queen Maud Land; DAV: Davis Station; MS: Mawson Sea; RS: Ross Sea.