Antarctic
About Antarctic
The Antarctic is the polar region of Earth that surrounds the South Pole, lying within the Antarctic Circle. It is diametrically opposite of the Arctic region around the North Pole.
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In 1939 America built a huge vehicle to drive across Antarctica, called the snow cruiser, but they put no tread on the tyres so it couldn't drive on ice, and we no longer know where it is.
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More facts about Antarctic
You can tell which way the wind is going in Antarctica from the penguins: before a storm they drop to their bellies and point their beaks in the direction the wind will come from.
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The Antarctic was known as the womanless continent for a long time.
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Parts of Antarctica are claimed by different countries, but no country really respects those claims.
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The Antarctic is losing three times more ice than it was as recently as 2012.
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Researchers discovered a super-colony of 1.5 million previously unknown penguins on the Danger Islands after noticing streaks of penguin poo in NASA's satellite imagery.
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In a study of how isolation changes a communal accent, scientists recorded 11 Antarctic base members saying 28 words before their departure and tracked how their vowels shifted.
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At an Antarctic station you put in a food order once a year for all your ingredients, so if you forget the coriander, that's it, you're done.
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There is one ocean current that goes all the way around Antarctica, which is why you get penguins all over the continent.
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Dogs are now banned from the Antarctic; the last one to go, Bothy, was reportedly only ever afraid once.
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Bubbles of ancient carbon dioxide trapped in Antarctic ice are 2.7 million years old, like little time capsules.
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On the Belgica expedition they found that playing a tune on a trumpet made the penguins come and stand right next to you, and that became how they caught them all.
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The dog Bothy was only ever scared once in the Antarctic, when he barked into a bowl-shaped snow hollow and the echo barked back at him.
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More places from this episode
No Such Thing As Tickling Baseball Players put 3 places on the map.
- Yellowstone Lake · United States
- Waverley Station · United Kingdom
Coordinates: -72.8439, 0.0000