Antarctica

Antarctica is a continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean.

Antarctica is land covered in snow and ice. The icecap is a bit bigger than the the size of the land.

The ice on Antarctica is on average more than 2 kilometres deep (7000 feet). If this all melted the sea levels around the world would rise by 61 metres (200 feet).

All facilities built in all research stations are considered 'human features' on the continent.

Extreme cold, hurricane force winds, crevasses, no sun rises for days, weeks or months, lack of any form of survivable landscape assets, extreme dryness -- all are dangerous for humans in Antarctica.

That would be the Atlantic Ocean. Pacific is on the other side, by California. Pacific

No. It's too cold and there is no irrigation possible.

However, on some research stations, hydroponic gardening does occur, growing edibles. This follows the rules of the Antarctic Treaty.

Antarctica is large (1.4 times the size of the USA and 58 times the size of the UK)
Greenland, physiographically is part of the continent of North America and is small enough to be considered an island.

No, no nation owns any part of Antarctica. Several nations have territorial claims on the continent -- not USA, however -- some of which overlap each other. The Antarctic Treaty (1960) holds all claims in abeyance and forbids any other future claims.

Antarctica is sometimes considered the driest place on earth, so it is drier than all the other deserts of the world, except for the Atacama in South America where it is drier than most of the Antarctic land. There are few places in Antarctica, however, that are just as dry or maybe even drier than the Atacama.

No. Antarctica is a continent and eels are sea creatures. Antarctic eelpouts found in the Southern Ocean, in fact, have been discovered to possess special variants of anti-freeze peptides.

No one actually owns Antarctica. France would only own bases that it has on the continent. I suggest looking up the Antarctic Treaty, whihc features alot more information than what I can give you.

About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice, which averages at least 1.6 kilometres (1.0 mi) in thickness.

Robert Falcon Scott and his team had very little technology available to them. Basically all they used was a sextant and a compass. He died at the age of 43 on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1912.

• only 50-100 people on board
• largely educational- only real enthusiasts
• tourists get briefed on requirements of Artic treaty
• strict instructions given
• cant go 5m of penguins and wildlife
• only 20 people on one spot at once
• expensive therefore less tourists

There are no plants or animals that live in Antarctica, except for a few hardy grasses, which can grow in the warmer summer months, especially on the Antarctic peninsula.

For animals that live in the Antarctic regions, see the related question. Note that no animals live on the Antarctic continent.

That would depend on your definition of "reach". 1773: Captain James Cook became the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle. 1820: The Antarctic continent was first seen by human eyes. Historians have disagreed on who those eyes belonged to; at least one possible claimant is believed to have seen land but mistaken it for ice at the time. Credit for being the first man to see the continent has been divided between three men who made separate voyages to Antarctica that year: Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy; Nathaniel Brown Palmer, an American sealer. 1840: Frenchman Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville became the first person to set foot on Antarctica. (Some historians believe that John Davis, an American sealer, may have set foot on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1821, but even he was unsure if he landed on the continent itself or a nearby island.)

Generally, any ocean -- sea ice -- freezes, it's called sea ice.

Antarctic Krill is the keystone species

unlike the last answer animals do live on antarcita, they incule but are not limited to Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica Antarctica), Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazelle).

you should only go with an experienced person and if you do go its really cool because you can see penguins, killerwales, ice waves and much more!

Scientists and those who work in support of science live there temporarily: there are no permanent residents of Antarctica.
One hundred percent of the population of the Antarctic continent is temporary workers who are supported by their governments to study the health of planet earth. Generally, for each scientist, there are seven workers who support the scientific work.

Not all species of penguins live in waters around Antarctica, but those that breed there have a number of adaptations to enable them to survive the icy winds and freezing temperatures.

Penguins have a thick layer of fat underneath the skin which helps to store energy. This thick layer of fat also insulates them. In addition, penguin feathers are specially designed. They are short and have an under-layer of fine woolly down, and easily shed water - a useful characteristic given that penguins spend up to 75% of their time in the water. Penguin feathers are shaped to overlap, enabling not only better streamlining for penguins when they are in the water, but protection from the wind when they are on land.

Penguins have dark feathers on the broad expanse of their backs. These black feathers absorb the heat of the sun, helping to warm up the birds. Penguins have a specially designed circulatory system which can adjust to conserving or releasing heat to maintain a constant temperature. Many species of penguins huddle together for warmth, and the eggs are incubated on the penguins' feet, where they get constant warmth.

Penguins are sea birds and make their homes in the seas.

They visit Antarctica's beaches to breed, because there are no land predators there. When a penguin wants to warm up, the animal simply returns to the warmer sea water. Sea water is liquid and always warmer than the ambient air on the continent.

Antarctica is melting, but it is like a giant mirror. The sun shines on Antarctica and it reflects back out to space. It is also extremely cold (the record is: −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at Vostok Station), so it's difficult to see the changes. Global warming is causing more precipitation there, which is falling as snow. This is building up in the centre of the continent. Warmer waters are causing more ice shelves to split from the coasts, so the overall result is less ice.

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