In fact some pesticides such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and similar, in combination with other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) suchashexachlorobenzene(HCB) and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCHs) have been detected in Antarctic marine biota and in other abiotic matrices when no applications have
ever taken place on this continent(Sladen etal.,1966; UNEP,2002)