Antarctica

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...

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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.

If by 'lights' you mean sunlight, the phenomenon you describe only occurs at the south pole -- 90 degrees S. Those six months are generally between September 21 and March 21.

The periods of no sunrise/no sunset occur at both poles beyond their respective circles of latitude: 66°33′45.8″, which marks the location on earth where the period is at least one of 24 hours in length.

Otherwise, scientists and other temporary workers who live in Antarctica in support of science can turn the lights on most anytime they are needed.

As far as animal life, only microscopic animals (such as mites and worms) and insects exist in Antarctica.

You may be thinking of the geographic south pole.

Despite the cold climate, Antarctica is home to the world's largest desert with precipitation levels dropping to a mere 20mm (0.8 inches) per year. The highest mountain peak is Vinson Massif, rising to 16,050 feet. There are 36 known volcanoes in Antarctica, most of which are currently dormant.

Because Antarctica is a "polar" region, there is no precipitation, it has no lakes or rivers and is in fact the driest continent. 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. The interior of Antarctica is considered the world's driest desert because the extreme cold freezes water vapour out of the air. Annual snowfall on the polar plateau is equivalent to less than 5 cm of rain. Antarctica has some of the strongest winds on earth, with some winds reaching 320 kph.

South of the Antarctic Circle, the geography experiences at least one 24-hour period of no sunrise/ sunset annually.

At 90 degrees South -- the South Pole -- this period is six months long. During the other six months, the sun doesn't set.

All research on the Antarctic continent has to do with the health of planet earth. Disciplines range from atmospherics to the psychology of isolated populations, climatology to earthquake research, and more.

Ever since we found crude oil in the ocean and have been able to access it, ever since there have been oil spillages.

Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest, coldest, cleanest, most isolated and most peaceful continent on earth.

Antarctica is an environment which is unique on our planet. It is a special wilderness which is worth preserving.

It is very cold (coldest place on Earth) and the only continent or major land mass inside the Antarctic Circle. It is also the only continent covered -- 98% -- by ice.

Antarctica is also the only continent on the planet that has not been claimed as an official territory of any country.

None.

New Zealand, together with many other countries, claims territory on the Antarctic continent.


The Antarctic Treaty, however, specifies that no territorial claims are honoured, nor will any new territorial claims be acknowledged.


The Antarctic Treaty governs the earth south of 60 degrees South Latitude.

An Antarctician is a native of Antarctica, or an informal term for a person who has spent time in Antarctica as a scientist or researcher.

Aurora are generated when magnetic storms from the sun hit the earth's atmosphere and interact with it.

Both polar regions experience aurora: Aurora Australis occurs in the Southern Hemisphere, and Aurora Borealis occurs in the Northern Hemisphere.