Antarctica
is the content located directly on the
earth’s south pole. Many people
don’t known that there is actually
land down there, which isn’t surprising
considering it is almost entirely covered
with ice all year long. Antarctica is
the coldest place on earth and has only
about 1000 people living on it. During
the “winter” in Antarctica
this number shrinks due to extremely low
temperature.
Discovered in 1897, Antarctica is the
fifth largest continent in area. It is
generally accepted as fact that this continent
was once located closer to the equator
but has since drifted to its current position
due to geologic movements. People started
looking for the Antarctica (known as the
“South Pole”) after finding
the Arctic (“North Pole”…
i.e. where Santa Claus lives). Adventurers
and explorers of all kinds died looking
for Antarctica, their ships crushed in
ice flows.
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The
person identified as “reaching the
pole first” was a person named Roald
Amundsen, who spent a whole year in Antarctica
in 1911. Since then people of many nationalities
have crossed this fantastically frigid
content for one reason or another, some
just to say that they did it and others
to bring back information on things like
global warming and animal mating habits.
The area remains so desolate that there
wasn’t a human born on the continent
of Antarctica until 1978, and it seems
that the mother of the child was sent
there specifically for the purpose. While
there may not be many humans there, there
are many types of creatures (all living
within a highly evolved ecosphere): this
includes around 250 types if lichens,
100 types of mosses, 25-30 types of liverworts,
and around 700 different types of terrestrial
and aquatic algal species.
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