Interesting facts about “Antarctica”


    The existence of the Southern Earth can be read even in the works of ancient scientists who believed that the ratio of land and sea in the Northern and Southern hemispheres should be the same. Otherwise, the ancient sages thought, the balance will break and the Earth will be constantly facing the Sun with a larger mass. The continent in the south would just have to balance the surplus of the water area in the low sprats of the Southern Hemisphere. In the expedition of the Englishman Robert Scott to the South Pole took part our compatriot Anton Omelchenko, a 27-year-old driver of Manchurian ponies. Now his name is called the Gulf of Ots Coast in Antarctica. After the polar expedition, he returned home to Poltava. He worked as a rural postman. He died in the spring of 1932, struck by lightning on the threshold of his own house. In 2006, at the Russian polar station “Vostok” a record was set for drilling the ice shell of this continent-3200 m. This allows scientists to analyze climate data of past glacial periods. In Antarctica, the wind speed reaches 90-100 m / s. The pole of the winds is in the Bay of Comopuels. During the year there are about 340 windy days. The average thickness of the glacial cover of Antarctica is about 2.6 km. If this mass of ice melted, the level of the world ocean would increase by almost 60 m. It was established that the Antarctic ice is young. The remains of ancient ferns and thermophilic dinosaurs on the mainland indicate that. that another 200 million years ago in the Mesozoic era, Antarctica was in a warm climate. In Antarctica, the floor of the ice column is several hundred meters long, there are freshwater lakes. One of them is equal to the area of ​​Lake Ontario in North America – about 19.5 thousand km2. Nature did not give wings to Antarctic flies. Strong wind does not allow them to fly.

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Interesting facts about “Antarctica”