Antarctica

I think the treaty system should continue and i think all countries need to do their bit and look after Antarctica as it is very precious and needs protecting as it holds many important resources and if "Global Warming" gets worse the ice could melt and would cause an intense rise in sea levels which would result in the flooding of Low Lying countries.

There are no indigenous inhabitants of Antarctica. The few that live there are research scientists. They survive by living in specially designed housing structures and wearing specialised clothing. Also because humans are warm blooded and lose heat very quickly in freezing temperatures, they have to eat a diet extreamely high in calories to give their bodies enough energy to keep warm.

For getting around on the continent, helicopters are the best flying transport. There are no runways or control towers there to facilitate other types of aircraft. However, the Lockheed C-130 is also used to fly over longer distances, such as to the South Pole, because of their ability to land and take off in rugged terrain..

Antarctica is the highest, darkest, driest, coldest and windiest continent on earth.

All the rivers, creeks, and streams in Antarctica are melt-water streams. Adams Stream flows from Adams Glacier into Lake Miers. Four-mile long Aiken Creek flows from west of Wales Glacier to Many Glaciers Pond, then west to Lake Fryxell. Other rivers and streams include Alp River, Lawson Creek, Onyx River, Priscu Stream, Rezovski Creek, and Surko Stream.

There are no countries on Antarctica and no permanent population. Many countries support scientific research stations on Antarctica.

The South Pole is located on the continent of Antarctica.

Because Antarctica is a polar region, one with no precipitation, it has no lakes or rivers and is in fact Earth's 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.

The Antarctic Treaty governs its use and management.

It contains no significant vegetation: it does not rain, it is permanently covered in an ice pack up to 4 Km thick, it has the coldest recorded temperature anywhere in the world (-89.5 C), with katabatic winds reaching to 320 kph.

Antarctica is colder and more heavily glaciated than any other continent, and it has no permanent residents, although there is a scientific research station there. A number of nations have made territorial claims on portions of Antarctica, however, there are no countries there, unlike other continents.

When you enter Antarctica, there is no immigration and customs procedure once you have cleared the immigration and customs of the last country you visited en route to the continent.

It was the last continent to be discovered and have humans set foot on it. Apart from all that, it is pretty ordinary.

All continents have at least one desert.

Europe used to be the only continent without a desert. This is no longer the case. The process of desertification, resulting from degradation of dry farmland, has reached many countries in eastern Europe, particularly within the Russian federation countries. Russia, which is the largest country on the continent of Europe, has over 100 million hectares either affected by desertification or under threat of desertification, that is, the gradual encroachment of desert lands. Antarctica is classified as a desert because it receives less than 250 mm of precipitation per year, and deserts can be cold areas as well as hot.

Yes. Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world. You would need to capitalize this word whenever you wrote it. It is considered a 'place'. A noun is a person, place, or thing - and a PROPER noun means that the noun must be capitalized because it names a PARTICULAR (place).

Antarctica is very cold while tornadoes can only form with thunderstorms, which require at least some degree of warm, moist air.

Shackleton was the first to reach the closest point to the South Pole; Shackleton reached 88 degrees 23 minutes on the South Polar Plateau on January 9, 1909.

Antarctica is governed -- as is all of planet earth south of 60 degrees S -- by the Antarctic Treaty, which is a condominium. It is not a democracy.

If you could fly in a straight line, like a bird, according to Google Maps, you'd fly 7,879.796 miles from Connecticut to Palmer Station, Antarctica.

it takes 2 days to go and to return from Antarctica This depends on where your itinerary starts from. Please modify your question for a more specific answer! This depends on where your itinerary starts from. Please modify your question for a more specific answer!

No, igloos are the traditional ice-block homes of the Eskimo peoples of the Arctic.

Antarctica is too cold to support any animal life. Nothing grows there and there is no food chain.

However, the Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent is the richest, most protein-productive water on earth. As well, these waters have the shortest food chain on earth. Krill form the base of the food chain and they feed on phytoplankton. Other animals consume the krill, including penguins, seals, whales and other sea birds and sea animals.

The reason there are so many Antarctic stations located on the coastline is simple - it is more hospitable. Towards the centre of Antarctica, it's hostile. Weather gets freezing, it gets windier, and elevation increases.

Antarctica should be protced it is one of the only places on earth that we (humans) have not spoilt yet what gives us the right to spoil antarctica. If we do then the sea levels will rise because of global warming which is another subject but the world is heating up and the sea levels will rise and are rising at every breath we take and are already starting to flood small islands which have big populations where the people will have to find somewhere else to live. Everything depend on something else and we depend on Antactica!

Ninety-eight percent of the Antarctic continent is covered with an ice sheet.

Actually, no-one owns Antarctica, and it is the only continent without any human population that is native to the region. But for decades, there have been explorers and scientists who have successfully reached the area and provided information about it. Since June 1961, the "Antarctic Treaty" has reinforced the practice of using the continent only for peaceful purposes, such as for scientific study. As a result, there have been scientists and explorers from a number of countries (including the United States) who have sent teams to study the region.

Human waste is either flushed into the Southern Ocean from research stations on the coasts, stored -- frozen -- in waste pits in more inland stations, or collected in bags, frozen and then returned to the country that supports the research station and its field camps.

Antarctica is bigger than the Arctic in terms of land mass, because Antarctica is a continent and the Arctic is essentially sea ice that borders land masses.

The areas or regions are both polar and are basically the same size -- as regions..

The three largest mountain ranges on the Antarctic continent are the Transantarctic Mountains, the West Antarctica Ranges, and the East Antarctica Ranges. The Transantarctic Mountains compose a mountain range in Antarctica which extend, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land. These mountains serve as the division between East Antarctica and West Antarctica. They include a number of separately named mountain groups, which are often again subdivided into smaller ranges.

There is nothing that lives permanently on the Antarctic continent itself by way of animal life. There are no land animals that are mammals, nor any reptiles or amphibians native to Antarctica. The continent is too cold to support animal life.

However, whales, seals, birds, fish, squid, salps (tunicates), penguins and shrimp live in the waters around Antarctica. Birds can be found at the edges of continent for the duration of the breeding season, on the ice and in the rocks. These include penguins, skuas, petrels and more.

Because baby birds are a food source, some seals also gather on ice floes near the coastline during their breeding season.

There are some species of spiders, mites, beetles, flies, mollusks and earthworms, but most of these are restricted to Sub-Antarctic islands north of the continent.

Plant life on and around Antarctica is restricted to bryophytes (mosses and liverworts),200 species of lichen, over 600 species of algae (most of which are phytoplankton), seaweed, pearl-wort and hair grass.

There are also no human populations native to the Antarctic continent. While scientists visit for varying periods of time, and tourists also make short forays to Antarctica, the Antarctic Treaty precludes any country from making permanent claim to the continent.

In the past, life on Antarctica was more diverse. Fossil research indicates that trees similar to those now found in tropical areas once lived in Antarctica. What is interesting is that fossil leaves of these trees indicate they were deciduous, yet the wood fossils themselves indicate they were evergreen. There is also evidence of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs, as well as many other organisms.

No humans 'live' in Antarctica, but people representing many governments work there as scientists and in support of science, so ethnically, you'll always be companions with a rich mix of nationalities.