Posts Tagged ‘Antartica’
When mid-December and then I asked permission to go to Antarctica, the head of my office was shocked. In the face of disbelief, he repeated sentence, “To Antarctica, a trip to the South Pole, what joy?
Flight to Antarctica can only be done in December, when the summer there. If it does not come means I have to wait until next year to visit the icy continent.
Hearing this explanation, finally after a long sigh, my head told, “Be careful, yes.”
Schools mentioned in the explanation, the earth has five continents: Asia, Europe, Africa, America and Australia. Unfortunately, we often do not realize, that in the south there, at the bottom of the planet, there is the land area of 14 million square kilometers, or two times larger than Australia. Mainland is not inhabited because 98 percent of its area covered with perennial ice layer thickness 2.3 to 4.8 km. Read the rest of this entry »