Because of the long Antarctic night, the 800 varieties of plants—lichens, mosses, freshwater algae, bacteria, molds, yeasts and fungi living on the land...
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The Antarctic weather helps to control the climate of all the globe. It produces more cold air than any other place in the world. The ice-crisp air rolls...
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In the mid-eighteenth century, man started to turn his exploratory interests southward. Only a few years previously much of the southern hemisphere was...
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In miles the size of Antarctica is 5405430 square miles, or 14,000,000 square kilometres. If you take into consideration the size of Antarctica that...
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Ever since the end of World War II, some have maintained that Adolf Hitler and his Nazis built a massive, secret bunker in Antarctica, which was used (and...
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Antarctica can be described as an ice desert where there a single green is not observed. But ironically it does not imply that Antarctica is vital to life...
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Amazingly, yes, there is life in Antarctica, despite the average temperatures of minus 60 degrees Celsius. There are two species of flowering plant that...
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Antarctica is the continent that surrounds the South Pole and that lies within the region defined by the Antarctic Circle. It occupies one tenth of the...
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The average temperature in Antarctica is a chilling -49 degrees C. Therefore it is 49 degrees under freezing point that is 0 degrees C. The average mean...
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The Ross Sea is a bay which is part of the Southern Ocean that encircles the continent of Antarctica; the bay lies between Victoria Land in eastern Antarctica...
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The continent of Antarctica situated in the extreme south straddling the South Pole is surrounded on all sides by the Southern Ocean which could be said...
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Antarctica receives very little rainfall throughout the year. Some sources claim that the average rainfall received per year is approximately 35-50 centimeters....
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The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) is a program devised to look for meteorites across the Transantarctic Mountains. ANSMET is supported by grants...
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