Antarctica Information Report
Do you know Antarctica? The highest, driest, coldest, windiest continent on the planet. Antarctica has the lowest temperature ever recorded it was -129 degrees Celsius. Antarctica is very special and not many people know it.
No other region of the world is as dramatically different as Antarctica. It is a continent hidden by ice, a desert buried under water. It is one wilderness that will never be logged, dammed or criss-crossed by hiker's trails or biker's tracks. At the same time, it is one of the planet's most important geological features -- for storms that blow down from its icy heights are the engines for much of the world's weather.
In its geography, Antarctica is a land of extremes: it is the highest, driest, coldest, windiest continent. Yet these same extremes offer spectacle and beauty, and no one who has ever visited Antarctica will ever feel an outsider to the wonders of the Earth.
For expeditioners to be able to maintain contact with family and friends is one of the most important aids to maintaining morale. But it is not family and friends with whom expeditioners maintain contact. The same communications services allow scientists to remain in contact with their research institutions to transfer data or to swap idea.
Driving some Antarctic species to the verge of extinction for economic benefit, killing and disturbing other species, contaminating the soils, and discharging sewage to the sea and leaving rubbish, cairns and tracks in even the most remote parts. The highest wind speed ever in Antarctica is 5 meters per second. Antarctica is a frozen windswept continent, so hostile and remote that it has no permanent inhabitants. Without an international agreement like the Antarctic Treaty there would be a free for all in Antarctica anybody could do or take what they want.
Antarctica is often though of as a pristine land untouched by human disturbance. Unfortunately this is no longer the case. For a little more that a hundred years people have been traveling to Antarctica. In that short time most parts have been visited and we left more than just footprints…..
By Chenise Dale Yr5
Do you know Antarctica? The highest, driest, coldest, windiest continent on the planet. Antarctica has the lowest temperature ever recorded it was -129 degrees Celsius. Antarctica is very special and not many people know it.
No other region of the world is as dramatically different as Antarctica. It is a continent hidden by ice, a desert buried under water. It is one wilderness that will never be logged, dammed or criss-crossed by hiker's trails or biker's tracks. At the same time, it is one of the planet's most important geological features -- for storms that blow down from its icy heights are the engines for much of the world's weather.
In its geography, Antarctica is a land of extremes: it is the highest, driest, coldest, windiest continent. Yet these same extremes offer spectacle and beauty, and no one who has ever visited Antarctica will ever feel an outsider to the wonders of the Earth.
For expeditioners to be able to maintain contact with family and friends is one of the most important aids to maintaining morale. But it is not family and friends with whom expeditioners maintain contact. The same communications services allow scientists to remain in contact with their research institutions to transfer data or to swap idea.
Driving some Antarctic species to the verge of extinction for economic benefit, killing and disturbing other species, contaminating the soils, and discharging sewage to the sea and leaving rubbish, cairns and tracks in even the most remote parts. The highest wind speed ever in Antarctica is 5 meters per second. Antarctica is a frozen windswept continent, so hostile and remote that it has no permanent inhabitants. Without an international agreement like the Antarctic Treaty there would be a free for all in Antarctica anybody could do or take what they want.
Antarctica is often though of as a pristine land untouched by human disturbance. Unfortunately this is no longer the case. For a little more that a hundred years people have been traveling to Antarctica. In that short time most parts have been visited and we left more than just footprints…..
By Chenise Dale Yr5
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