Antarctica

Frostbite may take a few minutes to set in, but frost-nip is a threat whenever one is out of doors in Antarctica.

Specifically, the length of time it takes for frostbite -- stage one, two or three -- to occur depends on the individual, on the temperature below zero and wind to which the person is exposed.

According to the Modern Survival Blog, with constant wind and temperatures in the mid-50 to mid-70 degrees below zero F, frostbite can occur within about five minutes.

Yes. Marine biologists who are funded by their government to study marine life in the Southern Ocean, which surrounds the continent, live there temporarily. Their work increases our knowledge of the health of planet Earth.

Fire works well to heat food in Antarctica.

People who live and work temporarily on Antarctica do so for short periods, up to six months, or one year. Then, they are required to go 'off ice' for a period, if they plan to return to Antarctica. The 'off ice' period is generally six weeks.

There are no countries on the Antarctic continent.

You can fly commercially to New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina or South Africa, then charter a private excursion -- all of which you'd pay for -- to take you to your Antarctic destination.

Otherwise from one of the countries listed above, you may be able to find a tour that will take you to the continent.

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All of Antarctica is considered a desert -- the driest continent on earth, because there is no substantial precipitation or humidity.

The dry valleys are essentially ice-free, making their desert features more familiar than the arid nature of the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.

Biggest town in Antarctica is Villa Las Estrellas, It has a summer population of 120 and 80 in the winter. It also has an hospital and school. It's located on King George Island, wich is part of antarctica. It is one of only two civilian settlements on Antarctica.

On the continent, the smallest penguin to breed there is the Chinstrap with a height of 68cm - 27 inches.

As well, the Rockhopper penguin with a height of 55cm - 21.6 inches, breeds on sub-Antarctic islands.

only some vegatation can be found such as fungi, moss,lichens and liverwort and some types of algae. There are two native vascular species of plant, the Antarctic Hairgrass and the Antarctic pearlwort

Some things they study are ice cores. They also might study aurora borealis, or the Northern lights. The animals are also studied, as with global warming. I am only 11 so you should be embarrased for not knowing this.

It's too cold in Antarctica for much decomposition. Today, you can find remnants of polar explorers' supplies, clothes and even some of the animals they studied. These items are dehydrated -- humidity on the continent is about five percent -- and finely preserved with little sign of decomposition.

Jack Dombrowski says "We don't know all of them yet, Global warming is a farce."

Among the natural predators of seals in the Southern Ocean that surrounds the Antarctic continent are Orca whales.

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Antarctica is not a country, but a geographic region and a continent with ineffective territorial claims by several nation-states.

The closest continent to Antarctica is South America -- a mere 600 miles across Drake's Passage, which is the 'wildest water' on earth.

Captain James Cook was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle on the 17th of January, 1773, and reached a latitude of 67 degrees 15 minutes S. It is not clear whether or not he actually set eyes on Antarctica since the ice pack prevented any further southward progress. In January, 1820, as a result of an earlier expedition where he was blown off course, the British Royal Navy sent William Smith as pilot with Edward Bransfield to search the waters south of the newly claimed South Shetland Islands. It is subsequently claimed that they are the first to see the Antarctic Peninsula. On the 27th of January, 1820, Russian, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, becomes the first person to see the Antarctic continent. In January,1821, Bellingshausen returns to the Antarctic and completes a circumnavigation of Antarctica being only the second explorer, after Cook, to do so. In February, American sealer John Davis arguably becomes the first person to land on the Antarctic continent. A Norwegian scientist immigrant to Australia, Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1864-1934), became the first man to set foot on the Antarctic when he stepped on to Cape Adare on the 24th of January, 1895. From 1894-95 he devoted his time to exploration of Antarctica. He attempted to reach the South Pole in 1897. During this expedition, he was the first to discover lichen in the Antarctic, and reached a latitude of 78 degrees 5 minutes S. Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott both explored Antarctica at the same time in 1911. Amundsen was aware of Scott's objective, but Scott was not aware that Amundsen was right behind him. Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole first on 14th of December, 1911. Amundsen reported that he saw no sign of Scott. Scott reached the South Pole on 17th of January, 1912, acknowledging in his diary that Amundsen had got there a month earlier. The last members of the Scott expedition was found dead by a relief party two years later in 1913.

Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) was a British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic (1907-09, 1914-17, 1921-22), during which the South Magnetic Pole was located in 1909.

Antartica was located at the southernmost part of Gondwana. Gondwana was the southern landmass of Pangaea. It consisted of the modern day continents Africa, South America, Australia, India, Arabia, Antarctica, and the European Balkans.

Leopard seals are the top Antarctic predator. At up to 12 feet and 1000 lbs they can do a lot of damage. Fortunately, they hunt in the water. they like chicken buts in a fat coconut

It is the leopard seal and the orca (killer whale).

Probably, the most dangerous animal on the Antarctic continent is the human.

Ninety-eight percent of the continent -- which is about the size of USA and Mexico combined -- is covered by an ice sheet.

Because of its geography, glaciers -- defined as ice that moves under its own weight -- form in the sheet, and are calved off to form ice tongues. Eventually, these break off and become icebergs.