Antarctica

This is an information report I made about Antarctica.

Antarctica is a continent on the bottom of the earth. It is purely made of ice and snow with temperatures of -40 degrees celsius. This continent is the home of the south pole. The country closest to Antarctica is New Zealand which is why it can be so cold here sometimes. Antarcticas ice is very thick which provides sturdy-ness to the few creatures that live there.

While its highest heat has been 63 degrees fahrenheit, the coldest it can be is -89 degrees! The weather can be nasty down there so if you were going for a visit, you’d have to bring some ECW (Extremley Cold Weather gear). The reason why Antarctica is so cold? It is due to no direct sunlight landing on the area, resulting in limited heat. The average climate in the cold continent is -57 degrees.

The terrain of Antarctic is very flat. If you are traversing across the ice-land you will have quite the smooth ride, with few mountains to look at. One of Antarcticas nicknames are ‘Flat Antarctica’. 

Antarctica has many mountains and volcanoes. Mount Vinson Massif is the tallest mountain there with a height of 4,892m. The shortest mountain is Gaussberg, an extinct volcano.  Some of the interesting mountains are Mount Erebus, which is actually an active volcano! Sir Ernest Shackletons crew was the first group to ever climb up Mount Erebus in 1908, but it took 77 years for the first solo climb to commence.  Mount Jackson is the highest peak in the Antarctic peninsula, reaching a height of 3,184m.

Antarcticas ice is very thick, and holds 70% of the worlds freshwater. The thickest it can get on the ice sheet is 4,776m. The thinnest ice sheet is the East Antarctica Ice Sheet (Estimate). The many sheets actually cover 98% of th continent, only 2% is land. If all this ice were to melt, the sea levels would rise a drastic 60m!

Antarctica is a cold continent covered in thick, fresh water holding ice. It’s flat terrain makes room for many interesting volcanoes and mountains.