Antarctica

No animals live on the Antarctic continent.

Russia supports several research stations, including Vostok, Bellinghausen, Novolazarevskaya and Mirny stations , which are permanent. Others, including summer stations, are Druzhnaya 4, Leningradskaya Station, Progress Station, Russkaya Station and Molodyozhnaya Station.

Antarctica is the most pollution-free continent on earth. The air is so clear that humans used to judging distances through polluted air cannot judge distance in Antarctica. For example, mountain peaks that are 30 miles away appear to these humans, to be about 70 miles away.
Antarctica is the least polluted continent on earth. In fact, there is so little particulate in the air, that there is no indoor dust.

The Distance between Los Angeles International Airport (California,Los Angeles County,US) [Airport] and Sakalaly (,Madagascar) is :
18015.34 kilometers (km).

In Other Units:
11194.21 miles.
9721.05 nautical miles.
Note: the distance is straight line distance (may be called as flying or air distance) between the two locations calculated based on their latitudes and longitudes. This distance may be very much different from the actual travel distance.

On an attempt to reach the South Pole in 1908, all of his ponies died and he had to abandon the attempt due to heavy storms. On a second attempt to reach the South Pole in 1914, his ship was crushed by pack ice, forcing the expedition to walk 1,200 km to South Georgia. Five months later they were rescued by a Chilean warship. On a third attempt to reach the South Pole in 1921, Shackleton died from a heart condition.

During a few months in December, there are sufficient nutrients (fertilizers such as N, P, and K) in the surface ocean waters to support tremendous blooms of marine plants. The nearly constant sunlight (sunset can be at 11:30pm and sunrise at 3:30am along the Antarctic Peninsula) during summer creates perfect conditions for the microscopic marine plants (phytoplankton) to multiply in vast quantities.

Antarctica is covered -- 98% -- by an ice sheet, not snow. You can find snow sometimes on the Antarctic Peninsula.

The beaches are ice-free, as are the nunataks -- the mountain tops that poke above the ice sheet.

There are no countries but there are seven territories: Adélie Land, Antártica, Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, British Antarctic Territory, Dronning Maud Land, and The Ross Dependency. For more on these, visit the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_territorial_claims#Official_claims

Calling them "territories" is stretching the meaning of the word "territory", especially since the above are not recognized by most of the countries of the world.

Also, the United States has not claimed any part of Antarctica, but it reserves the right to do so in the future, if necessary. A large part of the Antarctic coast is named "Wilkes Land", named for the American naval captain who discovered it.

Wilkes Land is just as important as any of the other ones named above, since none of them is internationally recognized.

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Native peoples of the Arctic have learned over the millenia, to construct homes from ice blocks. These are called igloos.

There are no native peoples on Antarctica, and no permanent population. People who live and work there temporarily sleep in dorms or tents, eat in cafeterias or mess tents and work in work buildings or in the field.

The South Pole is the most southern part of Antarctica.

Penguins are birds, not mammals.

The whale is the largest mammal in Antarctica - whales are not fish, because they are warm blooded, breath air through lungs (not gills, like fish), and they give birth to live young who feed off their mother's milk (unlike fish who either lay eggs or do not feed their young).

The other mammal on Antarctica is the seal, which are larger than penguins.

The penguin is not even the largest bird in Antarctica- that is the albatross.

If deforestation continues at the current rate, there could be a time when rainforests around the world disappear. It is up to all of us to act responsibly. You can help protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by holding an Adopt-A-Rainforest fundraiser and buying responsibly produced foods, wood and paper products. Most importantly, keep learning about rainforests and teach your friends and family how important they are.

No animals live on the Antarctic continent, even in the warm areas where this botany grows. However, some sea birds and sea mammals visit these beaches to breed. The diet of the breeding animals is found in the Southern Ocean, so except perhaps to sample, this botany is not part of any food chain.

We can’t tell you the future. This is not the psychic network.

It remains cold in polar climates even in full sun because the sun's rays hit the geography at an angle, and because it is warm-er than when there is no sun.

'Cold' is relative.

Antarctica is not a sovereign nation, nor is there any vertiginous population, no commerce and too little knowledge about this grand continent that occupies 10% of the earth's surface.

You can find both polar regions in map books, however, sequestered together usually. And you can find Antarctica on a world globe.

That would be your choice. There is no commercial air service to anywhere on the Antarctic continent.

If, however, you had been hired to perform a job there -- as a scientist or a worker in support of science -- you would land on ice near the research station where your job was located.

scientists use it for research with diseases

tourism

fishing and over fishing

resources e.g. oil, fossil fuels...

sorry don't know any more :)

hope this has helped

Skua is a sea bird, and although it doesn't immerse itself in liquid water to warm itself -- like a penguin might, it can float on the water and warm itself that way. As well, when the Skua are in Antarctica, they are breeding, the sun is up 24/7 and the air is warmer than in winter.

Antarctica is in the middle of the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Winter is June, July and August. Summer is December, January and February.

Even though not much grows on the Antarctic continent, it is extremely rich in oxygen.

From Wikipedia: "Oxygen is the most abundant chemical element by mass in the Earth's biosphere, air, sea and land."

Cold water in the Southern Ocean, for example, holds more dissolved oxygen than other bodies of water.

The oxygen cycle in general is responsible for supplying oxygen to the Antarctic continent.

By definition, water is liquid -- although most of Antarctica is frozen -- and a human could survive in water temperature from 28 to 32 degrees F anywhere on earth for only a few minutes.

According to USSARTF, "Normal body temperature of course, is 98.6. Shivering and the sensation of cold can begin when the body temperature lowers to approximately 96.5. Amnesia can begin to set in at approximately 94, unconsciousness at 86 and death at approximately 79 degrees."

They estimate that a human would survive less than one hour in 32 degree F waters.

Sir Robert F. Scott built a hut on what is now known as Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island in 1901. I don't know if that's the first, but that's a starting point for you.

Antarctica is one of two polar regions on earth.