Antarctica - Pictures, Facts and Travel
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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
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you have no intention of going, but just think Antarctica
is a cool place
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and photographic advice
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may have homework to do so you need
facts about Antarctica or its animals
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you're planning an
Antarctic cruise or vacation
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out what you will see, where you'll go and what you
need to take in the
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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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A
Solar Pillar, Antarctica produces many atmospheric
phenomena, this one is produced by tiny
air-borne ice crystals reflecting the sun forming a
pillar that moves from side to side with the
observer.
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.
Satellite
Image of the Aurora
Australis, Sept 11th 2005 - Photograph
courtesy 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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Significant events
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Ice Breaker Penetrating the Ice Pack
- Standish
Backus
Watercolor on paper, 1956. Pack ice consists of
massed fragments of sea ice drifting with wind and current. The icebreaker Eastwind is represented towing
a non ice-strengthened fuel and stores ship YOG-34
through the Ross Sea pack, overhead a helicopter scouts the ice
conditions.
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 or Antartic - but also Antártida l'Antarctique Antarktika 南極洲 القارة القطبية الجنوبية Antártica Антарктида 南極