Antarctica

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.

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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.

Some call the interior of Antarctica the Polar Plateau. It is also the driest area of the continent -- humidity less than five percent, and is thus a desert.

The waters of the Southern Ocean freeze around the Antarctic shores during the extreme cold and sunless winter. As opposed to the permanent ice, glaciers, and ice shelves, this sea ice extends for miles into the ocean, covering an ocean area about twice the size of the Antarctic continent (14 million km2). This ice melts again during the summer.

The continent itself does not change in size, but the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent merges with the frozen sea ice, essentially doubling the size of the ice sheet.

No, there are not any polar bears on Mount Everest but you might find other types of bear in the forest around the villages.

Yes, both squid and octopus are Antarctic sea invertebrates. British exploratory fishing is currently underway for the commercially exploitable squid which live in Antarctic waters. The Colossal Squid provides a food source for Antarctic whales.

In the middle of the continent, which is also above 10,000 ft. due to the thickness of the ice, mostly, it routinely dips below -100 Fahrenheit during the winter. The official lowest temperature is -128.6 at Russia's Vostok station.

There are no countries on Antarctica and no permanent population. The closest thing Antarctica has to an industry is scientific research.

Anterctica is a very cold place with harsh weather conditions. People have explored there and killed animals, though there is no census ( population) or permanent settlement there.

There's really no reason for any nation state to make any kind of claim to Antarctic Territory.

In addition, the Antarctic Treaty forbids additional claims, while holding existing claims in abeyance. The treaty preserves all land south of 60 degrees S for science, so any existing or future claim would have no other value.

There are no attractions in Antarctica, if by attractions, you mean Disneyland-like attractions.

However, there is plenty to see there. It's a forbidding and cold landscape with no vegetation. Animals come to the Antarctic continent to breed; there are no land animals that live there.

Some say it is the most beautiful place on earth.

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

Antarctica means "opposite of north". Antarctica is on the opposite end of the globe from the Arctic, which is north. That makes Antarctica be in the south. Therefore, Antarctica is "opposite of north".

There are many reasons to why we should not develop Antarctica. First, the oil and fishing has had problems over the past few years resulting in significant environmental damage.

Although there may be many useful resources like coal, hydrocarbons, iron ore, platinum, copper, gold and other minerals to be found, development is not permitted under the Antarctic Treaty.

In 1998, an agreement was reached to add a 50 year ban on mining until the year 2048.

Antarctica came into being in the early stages of the Earth's history, many hundreds millions of years ago. Nobody specifically 'made' it.