Antarctica - Pictures, Facts, History and Travel
Maybe
you've been to Antarctica to work or on a
cruise and want to
reminisce
Perhaps
you haven't been but would love to travel to the
Antarctic
Possibly
you have no intention of going, but just think Antarctica
is a cool place
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you like pictures - we've got stacks of
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and photographic advice
You
may have homework to do so you need
facts about Antarctica or its animals
Maybe
you're planning to travel to
Antarctica on a cruise
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out what you will see, where you'll go and what
you need to take in the
Antarctica
travel guide
Emperor penguin fact file
Whale
species
Antarctic
Pictures Gallery - The skies can be very clear and
it feels like you can see forever in Antarctica some
days, it's the windiest and highest continent as
well as the coldest
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Nacreous clouds above McMurdo Base, McMurdo
Sound - Picture courtesy Alan Light
Composite image of Antarctica and southern hemisphere, South America (top left), Africa (top right) and Australia / New Zealand (bottom right). The earth could never be viewed in this way as in reality one half of this view would be in daylight and the other in darkness.
Aurora Australis From Space May 24th
2010 - Photograph courtesy Johnson Space Center/NASA
Ice
sheets contain a record of hundreds of thousands of
years of past climate, trapped in the ancient
snow. Scientists recover this climate history by drilling
cores in the ice, up to 3,500 meters (11,000 feet) deep.
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The Antarctic Shrine
- Standish Backus
Sir Ernest Shackleton's
British Antarctic Expedition of 1907 hut at Cape Royds,
Ross Island. Units of Task Force 43 may be seen several
miles off Cape Royds fighting their way through frozen
McMurdo Sound behind an icebreaker toward the base at
Hut Point. In the background mountains fifty miles away
in Victoria Land are pictured. Picture courtesy
The Naval History & Heritage Command - USA
The Erebus glacier comes down the slopes of Mt. Erebus into the sea off the coast of Ross Island as an 11-12 km long ice tongue. It is a serrated, blue-rimmed "knife" extending into the snow and ice-covered McMurdo Sound. The smooth white expanse is the frozen Southern Ocean. Photograph courtesy of NASA / GSFC / METI / ERSDAC / JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.
It's Antarctica or Antarctic - not Antartica, Anartica or Antartic - but also Antártida l'Antarctique Antarktika 南極洲 القارة القطبية الجنوبية Antártica Антарктида 南極