The mountains, seas filled with blue whales, emperor penguins and leopard seals of Antarctica are all protected to preserve wildlife with an international agreement.This accord took effect in 1998, and prohibits mining and oil drilling for at least fifty years anywhere within the boundaries of the world’s most frigid and pristine ecosystem. The protection focuses [...]

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In all parts of Antarctica, countries whose primary industry is whaling, claimed large portions of land.Britain, Argentina and Chile all laid claim to large sections of Antarctica, and some of those claims overlap.France, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia are also know to have made claims on this continent. In 1940, the Nazis in Germany ordered [...]

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Antarctica is a land of immense beauty that is only topped by it harsh living.Every other continent has spilled the blood of man through war.However, this continent, with a land mass larger than America and Europe together, has been the scene of more violent deaths than natural ones, due to continuous low temperatures which keep [...]

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It was just over a hundred years ago that a whaling ship named Antarctic anchored itself and then launched a longboat toward a wind-swept shore through the dangerous waters of the Ross Sea.The party with their Captain, Leonard Kristensen, leading them landed and left the very first set of human footprints on the shores of [...]

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Do you know what Dallas, USA and the South Pole have in common? Believe it or not, they both see 100 degree temperatures in July.However, the difference between the two is that you experience negative 100 degrees at the South Pole.Think about it this way, it will be sufficiently cold to freeze exposed skin in [...]

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