all about on Antarctica
Antarctica is also called the white continent has about 95% of the world's permanent ice is found herethe ice it may be 5 km thick at certain places it is both beautiful and hostile at the same time it has been cut the highest driest, coldest, iciest and windist continent.
location and Discovery
without it kype it would be the smallest continent the thick layer of Ice and Snow contains 70% of the world's best water and is therefore the largest reserve the continent of Antarctica covers and from the South Pole located near the centre of the Antarctica the salt for each one is recovered Windows place hai play to all the lines of longitude meet at a shop and it is the southernmost tip of the earth.
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most of the Antarctica is located on the south pole of the ondikatta circle is the forest small portion of the Antarctic Peninsula date is not of the Antarctic ka circle and is very close to the Southern tip of the South America.Antarctica the fifth largest continent lies completely in the southern hemisphere and is surrounded on all sides by the southern part of the Pacific the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.
the body of water has been called the southern Ocean or the Antarctic Ocean its escape makes it is highest continent in terms of average height.
the continent first first in scene in 1820 but it was only in 1911 that the first landing was made and the Norwegian Explorer Roald amundsen reach the South Pole this was five weeks before the British team headed by Captain Robert Scott Russell and it there.
in 1959 12 countries signed the Antarctic Treaty agreeing to the use of the continent for research purpose testing for Radioactive dumping poisonous wastage and military activity of any kind of any nation is banned at the end of 1998 there was 43 National Western the Treaty there has been a difference of opinion among the country over the issue of climbing part of the continent to control the natural resources like mineral and oils.
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physical features
the continent is almost completely covered with ice Dye celebrate your forms and texture and supported shades of blue and it can be seen in the ice cream bases and ice mountain.
under the ice challenge deep basins and the Ice cap is T test in such basing dice thickness average between 1 and half 23 miles sometimes the escape bricks and on three bases or deepfakes that may be more than 30 M Deep.
there is an annual cycle in the Antarctic every winter the sea around the continent please like and I skirt the biggest Iceberg record is what 200 miles long and 60 miles wide the world largest valley Glacier is the Lambert glacier in Antarctica.
approximately 98% of the continent has been under ice and architecture is mountainous the vision myself with the highest point at 16600 feet.
the trans centric mountain range stretch over 3,000 miles and separate East and West Antarctica this chain also has ice-free rocky area known as dry valleys card by gracious the ragging been swept away the snow that was in this berries and some of the village have lakes.
along the southern coastal area of the continent in the play to card queen and active volcano can be found on the source of the Rosary card MT erebus on the to insert the trans Antarctic mountains they are too large groups the road sea and the weddel sea.
download which we talk about river starts Costa glacier in the summer months in line for 20 mins and provides water to Lake wanda.
climate
Antarctica Hai 6 month of Daylight I 6 month of Darkness the winter season last from may to August customer season lasts from November December temperature in Antarctica really got 0 degree Celsius the world's lowest temperature ever recorded -89.2 degrees celsius at Austin station in July 1983.
several low temperatures private lettuce elevation and distance from the ocean East Antarctica is called and invest in takat ka because of its higher elevation Antarctic Peninsula has the most moderate climate the Antarctic Peninsula stand much folder not then the rest of the continent and is categorised by a woman and weather climate and the coastal areas has a very high attitude which led to the cause and being far away from the ocean is gets no warming effect from the water.
natural resources
1-plant life
conditions are not at all favourable for visitation industry gen release rise to record and ice covered there is very little plant life like like and mosses algae and flowering plants.
2-animal life
the world's most immediately identified with Antarctica Penguins this but cannot find what are very good swimmers and interesting subject for ages is how they adapt to the extreme condition is taken not like they need not be light and and store in a fight in their bodies to survive in the freezing condition their fathers are Steve and very tightly packed with just like a waterproof coat their short round says help them to conserve it while their Wings as type slippers and help them to swim underwater they are so you closer together to keep warm.
more than 40 kinds of birds are found here especially in summer when they feed on a variety of fish.
but like Albatross cormorant petrol you etc can be found here.
watermelon very thin animals can a very few incidents found English means by which is about 12 mm in length and is kind of a fly is just and land animal living there.
Munerals
Geologist Hai press smart deposit of Copper, Gold, iron lead magnet zinc and call hearing has also given with the possibility of oil reserve.
Water-
frozen water is available in large quantities researchers are looking for ways by which they could transport a large Iceberg to diesel plant to be used as a source of freshwater in the summer months the age of the break away and flat as well if the Undertaker is melted the sea level would 200 feet.
India's presence in Antarctica
Antarctica National laboratory from carrying out scientific research in various will it provides a clue to goindwal and for which it was a part and its I see it has a story of climate changes pollution over the ages and the greenhouse effect of water provide which material for Research and the impact of the environment of Antarctica under Indian climate and it's made in the researches and the influence of the weather in other parts of the world.
Inter College in 1981 the first Indian space mission to undercut Divas and of from Goa seized in over 20 and scientific explanation have been sent through the department of social development centre of Antarctic and ocean Research India at the established permanent base camp there the Indian permanent station maithri built in 1988 and the supply base at Dakshin Gangotri.
