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Also hiding under the Antarctic ice is an entire lake:Lake Vostokis a pristine freshwater lake buried beneath 2.5 miles (3.7 kilometers) of solid ice. It is about the size of Lake Ontario, and is the largest of the more than 200 liquid lakes strewn around the continent under the ice. A...
It is near the middle of the Great Antarctic ice sheet at an altitude of 2,800m (9,186 ft). It is 1,230 km (764 miles) from the nearest coast. The ice at the Pole is moving at about 10 m per year. Each year staff at the Amundsen-Scott (USA) station at the South Pole ...
In 1901, Scott of the Antarctic took 3,500lbs of cheddar (made in Cheddar itself) on his famous expedition. The first cheese factory in the United States was built in 1851 by Jesse Williams in Oneida County, New York. Before the First World War, more than 3,500 cheese producers were ...
98% of Antarctica is covered by ice. With an average thickness of about 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers), the Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth, reaching a maximum thickness of 3.0 miles (4.9 kilometers).
The South Pole being the South Pole has a prime location in the auroral zone. It sits farther south of the Antarctic Circle than any other spot on the map (naturally), and the Southern Lights are a regular occurrence here. On the downside, the continent is inhospitable, to say the least...
theSouth Poleinstead of the North. He sailed theFramdirectly from theMadeira Islandsto theBay of Whales,Antarctica, along theRoss Sea. The base he set up there was 60 miles (100 km) closer to the pole than the Antarctic base of the English explorerRobert Falcon Scott, who was heading ...
(about 30 miles) above Earth’s surface. In the stratosphere thetemperatureof the atmosphere rises with increasing height, a phenomenon created by the absorption ofsolar radiationby the ozone layer. The ozone layer effectively blocks almost all solar radiation ofwavelengthsless than 290 nm from ...
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