Antarctica

You can contact the government's representative in Antarctica -- for USA, this is the National Science Foundation -- and request a contact. You may be able to connect with a person using short wave radio. If you have a mailing address, you can also send a letter.

Most commonly, you may be able to send e-mail to a person in Antarctica, if the person is a temporary worker in a research facility there.

Contact with field camp personnel may be problematic given the lack of easy-to-use communication facilities there.

Antarctica was the last continent to be explored because to travel there is hard

Human exploration is always limited by transportation. When people began exploring the earth's waters in ships, it was clear that polar waters were ultimately not navigable, given that errant icebergs could destroy a ship. This was too high a price to pay.

Until ships' hulls were reinforced to withstand a collision with an iceberg, nothing was known about the area of the Southern Ocean. Since this is the location of Antarctica, it was the last continent to be discovered.

Surely an Estuary depends on there being a river, & it's generally a bit parky in the Antarctic so I'm thinking the rivers are all frozen......

Hobart Tasmania is about 1390 nautical miles or 2575 kilometers from Antarctica. The average flight time from Hobart to Antarctica is about 4.5 hours.

Note that there are no commercial air services on this route.

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, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. There are no countries on Antarctica and no permanent population. Many countries have scientific research stations on Antarctica. 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.

Ellsworth Mountains make up the highest mountain range in Antarctica. This range is 360km long and 48km wide at its widest point. The tallest peak of the Ellsworth Mountains, Vinson Massif, is 4897m high.

The second highest Antarctic peak is Mount Tyree at 4,852 metres.

i believe one symbiotic relationship in antarctica is the lichen and fungi. Its hard to believe there are plants there but there are. The fungi is the lichen's photosynthetic partner, meaning it provides the lichen with sunlight. i believe one symbiotic relationship in antarctica is the lichen and fungi. Its hard to believe there are plants there but there are. The fungi is the lichen's photosynthetic partner, meaning it provides the lichen with sunlight.

Antarctica is located in the southern hemisphere, and is a continent that covers about 10% of the earth's surface. You can locate the continent between 63°12′48″S, 57°18′08″W and 90° S.

Antarctica is protected by international treaty which prohibits mineral extraction as well as any military activity. No one owns it though different countries have claimed different parts. There are no plans to change any of this, so Antarctica will likely continue to remain a peaceful, undisturbed region of scientific research with some tourism around the coast.

At the present tine the Antarctic is the coldest continent on Earth. However for most of the past 400 million years it has been quite warm with massive forests. About 40 million years ago after the age of dinosaurs it became colder due to continental drift.

Antarctica is extremely cold with severe winds up to 320 Kph. It is a long way from anywhere and would be very difficult to transport all of the necessary building materials and equipment and just as difficult to accomodate all of the construction worker.

Any sort of development on Antarctica would be disastrous to the environment and would open the flood gates for all sorts of other things like mining. At present, the expense and difficulty of developing Antarctica is one way Antarctica is being kept safe. Another is The Antarctic Treaty, which forbids any human activity except in pursuit of science.

India, Africa, Australia, and South America.

As of the year 2000, the International Hydrographic Organisation decided that the waters surrounding Antarctica would be known officially as the Southern Ocean. The Southern Ocean extends from the coast of Antarctica to the 60 degree South line of Latitude. What is now the Southern Ocean was previously the southern most portions of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Southern Ocean incorporates the Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies.

Everything on the Antarctic continent is imported, from food, equipment, scientific gear, building materials and humans.

The country lies mostly within the Arctic Circle.

The country lies mostly within the Arctic Circle.

The country lies mostly within the Arctic Circle.

The country lies mostly within the Arctic Circle.

The country lies mostly within the Arctic Circle.

The country lies mostly within the Arctic Circle.

There is no commercial or sport fishing in the oceans around Antarctica: both actions are precluded by the Antarctic Treaty.

^^ your no help whatso-bloody-ever

Reptiles are not warm blooded. Not enough heat.

Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen was the first person to see the continent of Antarctica on the 27th January 1820.

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.

Antarctica, the fifth largest continent on earth is covered -- 98% of it -- by an ice sheet. As gravity pulls the ice that flows off glaciers and ice tongues form in open sea water, the wave action breaks off the tongue and the ice floats away as an iceberg. This action takes tens of thousands of years.

The numbers of icebergs are innumerable: icebergs vary in mass from the size of a sedan to the size of New York's Manhattan Island. They float in the Southern Ocean and do not qualify as icebergs until they are wholly contained in sea water.

The closest capital city to Antarctica is Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands.

No of course not! Nothing grows well in Antarctica for cattle to survive on!