Antarctica

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Antarctica
Location
Animals
History
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Antarctica Facts
5th largest of earth's seven continents
mostly circular in shape with a long arm
has only 2 seasons summer and winter
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Antarctica Adjectives
Temperature is never above freezing even in the
summer.
coldest
Antarctica is 98 ice. It has 90 of all the ice
in the world.
iciest
Antarctica is the windiest continent.
windiest
Antarctica is a desert environment with the same
rainfall as the Sahara Desert.
driest
Antarcticas mountains make its land-mass the
highest of all the 7 continents.
highest
4,000 people live there in summer. Only 1,000
live there in winter.
loneliest
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Penguins
Adelie
Emperor
Gentoo
Chinstrap
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white ring around eye smallest penguin weigh
around 12 pounds about 28 inches tall raise 2
chicks each year live in colonies
Adelie Penguins
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Emperor Penguins
largest of all the penguins
weigh 66 to 83 pounds
raise only 1 chick each year
40 to 50 inches tall
live in colonies
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Gentoo Penguin
around 30 inches tall weighs 12 pounds hatch 2
chicks a year catch fish close to surface
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Chinstrap Penguin
narrow band of black feathers from ear to ear 28
to 29 inches tall weigh 8 to 10 pounds most
numerous of all penguins
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History of Antarctica

• first known landing on Antarctica was made on
  February 7, 1821 by Captain John Davis
• Antarctica was established as a continent in the
  1840s
• first scientific expedition in 1897 became
  caught in the ice and had to spend the winter in
  Antarctica
• Sir George Wilkins and C. B. Eielson flew the
  first airplane over Antarctica in 1928