1. If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters (200 - 210ft) - everywhere.
2. Antarctica is pushed into the earth by the weight of its ice sheets If they melted.
3/ Antarctica is the best place in the world to find meteorites.
4/ One of the biggest iceberg ever broke free from the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica in 2000.
5/ a full grown blue whale eats about 4 million killer per day that's 3600 kg or 4 tons - every day for 6 months. Having laid down a layer of fat from this feeding activity in Antarctica, they then starve for several months.
6/ Since the antartica convergence arose about 20 million years ago, there has been very little exchange of fish or other marine life in either direction.
7/ A domestic deep freeze runs at about -20°C. The mean summer temperature on the great East Antarctica icecap is -30°C and mean winter temperature around -60°C.
8/ When the antartica sea-ice begins to expand at the beginning of winter, it advances by around 40,000 square miles (100,000 square kilometres) per day, and eventually doubles the size of Antarctica, adding up to an extra 20 million square kilometres of ice around the land mass. 9/ Snow falling at the South Pole takes about 100 000 years to flow to the coast of antartica before it drops off the end as part of an iceberg.
10/ Samples of ice known as ice cores are regularly drilled through the ice in Antarctica by scientists. They are removed as a long cylinder of ice .
2. Antarctica is pushed into the earth by the weight of its ice sheets If they melted.
3/ Antarctica is the best place in the world to find meteorites.
4/ One of the biggest iceberg ever broke free from the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica in 2000.
5/ a full grown blue whale eats about 4 million killer per day that's 3600 kg or 4 tons - every day for 6 months. Having laid down a layer of fat from this feeding activity in Antarctica, they then starve for several months.
6/ Since the antartica convergence arose about 20 million years ago, there has been very little exchange of fish or other marine life in either direction.
7/ A domestic deep freeze runs at about -20°C. The mean summer temperature on the great East Antarctica icecap is -30°C and mean winter temperature around -60°C.
8/ When the antartica sea-ice begins to expand at the beginning of winter, it advances by around 40,000 square miles (100,000 square kilometres) per day, and eventually doubles the size of Antarctica, adding up to an extra 20 million square kilometres of ice around the land mass. 9/ Snow falling at the South Pole takes about 100 000 years to flow to the coast of antartica before it drops off the end as part of an iceberg.
10/ Samples of ice known as ice cores are regularly drilled through the ice in Antarctica by scientists. They are removed as a long cylinder of ice .