What are facts about about Antarctica?

Answer 1

• There is no official language
• There is no capital
• They have no currency
• There are no legislative or advisory bodies
• It is the windiest, darkest, driest, and coldest continent
• More than 90% of the coastline is barricaded by icebergs and sea ice
• Ships are one main source of transportation; air is another
• There is no species of ants
• If its ice sheets melted, the world's oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters (200 - 210ft) - everywhere.
• It is the best place in the world to find meteorite
• At the thickest point, the ice in Antarctica is around 3 - 4 km thick.
• Only 0.4 percent of Antarctica is not covered by ice.

-- Antarctica may be covered with snow and ice, but it's actually a desert. Annual snowfall on the polar plateau is equivalent to less than 5 cm of rain, and the extreme cold freezes water vapour out of the air. The thousands of feet of ice that bury it are the accumulation of many many years, that never melted. The blizzards there are mostly just old stuff blowing around.

-- Anywhere south of the Antarctic Circle, the sun will stay up more than 24 hours during some part of the time between September 21 and March 21. The farther south of the Antarctic Circle you go, the longer that time will be. Right at the South Pole, the sun never sets during that whole six months.

-- Of course, the other half of the year is even worse in the same places. Anywhere south of the Antarctic Circle, the sun will stay down more than 24 hours during some part of the time between March 21 and September 21. The farther south of the Antarctic Circle you go, the longer that time will be. Right at the South Pole, the sun never rises during that whole six months.

--The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude and is located on the continent of Antarctica. Antarctica is a continent of approximately 14,000,000 sq km. It is surrounded by the Southern Ocean, made up of the Southern Indian ocean, the Southern Pacific Ocean and the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

--Average temperatures in the Antarctic interior get down to -70 degrees Celsius during the winter months and -35 degrees Celsius in the warmer months. The coastal temperatures are much warmer with a range of -15 to -32 Celsius in Winter and -5 to +5 Celsius in Summer.

--Antarctica has some of the strongest winds on earth, with some winds reaching 320 kph.

It is spelled Antarctica.

The ice loss there is far less then we have observed in the Arctic. Some reports suggest that it is growing at the same rate as the Arctic is losing ice.

Most of the temperature and atmospheric history comes from the ice in this area.

The thinning of the Ozone layer appears above this area for many weeks every year.

Temps reach a low of -82 degrees there.
Antarctica is the highest, driest, darkest, windiest, coldest and iciest continent on earth.

Answer 2

Antarctica is melting because of all the energy we're using. The energy we're using is adding onto the heat of the sun. The heat of the sun is melting all the ice. The Polar Bears are dieing because the ice is melting and they have nowhere to make their homes to raise their young. If they have nowhere to raise their young they will end up dieing. That's all I have to say. Bye.Love Aisha JohnsonFrom Granite Falls Middle School