What is Antarctica like?

Answer 1

Antarctica is a cold, desolate and windswept continent, where at the South Pole, you will see one sunrise and one sunset per year. It's beaches are dotted with small human scientific bases. A few marine mammals and sea birds breed on Antarctica's beaches, and are found nowhere else in the world.

Antarctica is the southern most continent of the world, It is larger than Europe. It is a difficult place to live in because of its low temperatures and strong winds.The word wilderness describes Antarctica well.

　

Antarctica has a very thick ice sheet.Antarctica is a very isolated place to be.Over 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice.It is the driest and coldest continent on earth.Antarctica is the fifth largest continent based on size.But is the smallest in population with a population of 0. Antarctica is the windiest place on earth.

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

Answer 2

For people who work in Antarctica during the winter season -- called a winter-over -- the season is different from the summer season, basically because of the number of days without a sunrise.

This number differs, depending on how far south of the Antarctic Circle a base is located. For example, at South Pole station, an American base called Amundsen-Scott Base, there is one sunrise per year and one sunset per year.

(Sunrise and sunset are defined as the sun's orb being half above and half below the horizon.)

Farther north, the number of sunless days is less than at the South Pole (to the Antarctic Circle, north of which there is one sunrise every 24-hour period).

Without sun, the human body has a tendency to slow. This means that bruises and scrapes heal more slowly. Artificial light requirements are lower, so we dim the lights. Voices become softer and so forth. A person can eat about 1,000 extra calories a day, because it takes that much more energy to keep one's core temperature normal.

There are three weather conditions during the winter (on American bases):

• Condition Three, temperatures to minus 75 degrees F -- business as usual: walk between buildings, work outside
• Condition Two, temperatures between minus 75 degrees and minus 100 degrees F -- personnel are required to travel in pairs when out of doors
• Condition One, temperatures below minus 100 degrees F -- all personnel are required to remain indoors with no outdoor travel

The wind is constant. There's a whole new (southern) hemisphere of stars to learn. You can read a book by moonlight during the ten days around a full moon -- but you must remove your gloves to turn the page.

During the winter, the winter-over staffs repair scientific resources, including instruments, radios, transports, tents, camping equipment and so forth.

As well, some scientific readings are taken from instruments that monitor scientific phenomenon during the winter, with data either kept locally or transmitted by satellite to the scientist in America responsible for the scientific study involved.

Answer 3

A person lives and works in Antarctica, paid by the governments who signed the Antarctic Treaty, in support of science.

Workdays -- six per week, usually begin at 7:30AM and end at 5:30PM, with two breaks and one short lunch period. Some shift workers work other hours.

Food is taken in cafeterias, and people sleep in bunk rooms. The number one job, however, is survival in this extreme environment.

Answer 4

everyday life in Antarctica is one of the most difficult conditions ever live and work in, working and living in Antarctica includes surviving in freezing cold and windy weather, icy terrain and blizzards, so not easy what so ever.

Answer 5

Scientists and workers temporarily assigned to Antarctica sleep in dorms, eat in cafeterias and work in work spaces/ locations.

All of these activities can also take place in tents when the work is in a field camp.

Room and board are part of the compensation for workers and scientists while on 'the ice'.

Answer 6

if living in Antarctica, it would feel like little bugs biting on the tips of your fingers because of how cold it is.

Answer 7

If you lived in Antarctica then you would have to live in small cabins. Eat dried or tinned food. But if you are a scientist then go, apparently the wildlife and scenery is incredible.

Answer 8

living or working in such a remote place