Across the two areas are about a million pairs of Adélie penguins, more than a dozen species of whale, more than a third of the world's population of emperor penguins, abundant krill and fish species and the Ross Sea region's top predator – the toothfish, which can grow to two metres weighing 200 kilos (they've evolved special anti-freeze like proteins to survive in the frigid waters).
The Roman Stoic philosopher, essayist, celebrity and dramatist Seneca was tutor, speech-writer and adviser to the emperor Nero, and he was also, not coincidentally, one of the very richest people of his age.
Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia who accumulated a magnificent list of titles before being deposed in a coup in 1974, has a strong claim to be called the all-time king of bombast.
Lee, an assiduous journalist and talented on-screen broadcaster, was, however, merely behaving like the little boy who kept pointing out that the emperor had no clothes.
Once, the absence of the emperor would have led to a violent jockeying for position.
His wealth was certainly stained by blood: it came from an emperor who killed his stepbrother and his mother, as well as a number of less prominent people.
Gross once was guru, king, emperor and star of the show at his own firm.
As emperor his duties are largely ceremonial, consisting principally of state visits and apologising to other Asian countries for Japan's wartime conduct.
He would have insisted on accountability and been the guy who walked behind the Roman emperor chanting: "Remember you are human, Caesar".
A fitting tribute to the undisputed emperor of linguistic excess.
Like always, investors were first to notice the emperor had no clothes, and since January they started selling Greek bonds, alarmed about the country's shrinking economy, inability to collect taxes and ballooning debts.
