Antarctica

James Clark Ross in the Erebus and Terror, left England on their Antarctic voyage on the 5th of October, 1839. Ross and the Erebus landed in Hobart on August 16, 1840. On the 12th of November, 1840, Erebus and Terror left Hobart for the Antarctic. On January 22 Ross calculated that they had reached a higher latitude than James Weddell had in 1823 at 79 degrees 10 minutes South latitude.

There is no culture in Antarctica, because there are no native peoples and no nation states.

Antarctica is the highest, driest, darkest, windiest, coldest and iciest continent on earth. Those climate attributes effect everything.

Antarctica -- a condominium -- is governed by the Antarctic Treaty, which governs all land south of 60 degrees S.

The treaty preserves this land for the scientific study of the health of planet earth.

Technically yes, and technically no.

There are rats on the island of South Georgia, which is an island belonging to the content of Antarctica, however, great pains are being taken to prevent the from reaching the main land to prevent them from disrupting the fragile ecosystem.

Antarctica covers about 9% of the Earth's land surface, which is about 3% of the total surface, or about 14 million square kilometers. It is about as 1.5 times as big as the US.

Yes, the word 'Antarctica' is a noun; a proper noun, the name of a specific continent.

Because there's essentially no place to use currency on the continent -- no commercial enterprises, and because there is no sovereignty on the continent, there is no 'Antarctic currency'.

People may purchase items, however, that are for sale and the currency used is the currency of the transaction.

Emperor penguins are sea birds and live at sea, except during breeding season. During this season, Emperor penguins travel to Antarctic beach rookeries to mate, lay eggs, and tend to chicks until all can return to the sea.

Breeding season occurs during the August to November months, generally.

Antarctica is frigid because it does not receive as much heat from the sun as other parts of earth do, so it is colder. To be a desert you must have little to no rainfall, like Antarctica. Antarctica is like this because (as already mentioned) the sun doesn't give it much heat , so very little (if any) evaporation occurs. Without evaporation clouds do not form and no rainfall occurs. In normal deserts (hot deserts) their is no rain because their is no water in the deserts to evaporate, and winds do not carry clouds with rain to the deserts.
Antarctica is a desert because the ice is dried ice s o it doesn't water.

gloves protect peoples' hands from getting frostbite and hypothermia

The study of Antarctica is useful tous because the more we know about antarctica, the better we can protect it. We can also look for new species of plants and animals

You can find Antarctica south of 60 degrees S. All of the continent is considered a desert, because of its low -- average five percent -- humidity, and lack of precipitation.

Antarctica is the driest continent in the world.

There are no commercial flights to anywhere in Antarctica.

The Antarctic is a region that contains the continent Antarctica. Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitationof only 200 mm (8 inches) along the coast and far less inland.

Primarily because the cost of living, heating, energy, getting things to and from there, and so on are prohibitive. whereas if there were metal deposits in Alaska and they were say, near Juno, it wouldn't be so bad, because there is road transport, close food, fully powered electricity on the grid etc. whereas in Antarctica, there is no electricity on the grid, all electricity is generated using fuel generators, so there is a cost, getting metal from the ground costs more fuel, and you would have to be shipping fuel there on a daily basis to get the place afloat in general. that and Australia is the nearest continent and that is at least 2 weeks away by boat, not to mention getting the stuff across the ice to the boat in the first place.

The whitetail deer can be found on every continent but Australia and Antarctica. Whitetail deer is one of about the 100 types of deer that are recognized in the world.

It depends which desert you mean; Antarctica is a desert and also the coldest place on Earth - averaging -50oC in the winter.

Conversely, the Lut Desert is also a desert and that's the hottest place on Earth - reaching 70oC(!)

Even in "regular deserts" such as the Sahara, there is an enormous range between the maximum and minimum - there is very little moisture in the air to hold heat so the night temperature is very low; travellers have said the saliva freezes in their mouth during the night.

The first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere is September 21. Antarctica is located in the Southern Hemisphere.

Orcas do not live in Antarctica. Antarctica is a continent and orcas are marine animals.

Orcas swim in the Southern Oceans that surround the Antarctic continent.

Expeditions began in the late 1800s to learn more about this remote part of the earth. Some have been well-documented, others not so much.

Any group that 'goes to Antarctica' can be said to be on an expedition, because there is no commerce, lodging, or other commercial enterprise on the continent.

The number is many, since there are now expeditioners who are paid by people to to take tours -- expeditions -- to the continent.