Antarctica

Antarctica

A community portal about Antarctica with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Antarctica is the southernmost continent and includes the South Pole. Geographic sources disagree as to whether it is surrounded by the... [more]

A community portal about Antarctica with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Antarctica is the southernmost continent and includes the South Pole. Geographic sources disagree as to whether it is surrounded by the Southern Ocean or the South Pacific Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean. It is divided by the Transantarctic Mountains. On average, it is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. At 14.425 million; km, Antarctica is the third-smallest continent after Europe and Australia ; 98% of it is covered in ice. Because there is little precipitation, except at the coasts, the interior of the continent is technically the largest desert in the world. There are no permanent human residents and Antarctica has never had an indigenous population. Only cold-adapted plants and animals survive there, including penguins, fur seals, mosses, lichens, and many types of algae. The name "Antarctica" comes from the Greek ανταρκτικός, meaning "opposite to the Arctic."

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A Chinese scientist said China plans to build a remote-sensing satellite receiving station in Antarctica to better monitor the global ocean environment. Jiang Xingwei, director of China's National Satellite Ocean Application Service, who is traveling with the Xuelong icebreaker, said the receiving station will rely on the Zhongshan Station and the Great Wall Station, China's two research stations in Antarctica. Jiang said the receiving...  
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Memorial services were held in three parts of the world today to commemorate two Air New Zealand tragedies separated by 29 years. Services were conducted in Auckland and Christchurch to remember the 30th anniversary of the Mt Erebus disaster in ...  
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Ah, a fertile theme for post names. Excellent. So, much excitement over a new GRACE study in Nurture (Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements, J. L. Chen et al.) indicating that Antarctica as a whole was losing mass: In agreement with an independent earlier assessment, we estimate a total loss of 190plusminus77 Gt yr-1, with 132plusminus26 Gt yr-1 coming from West Antarctica. However, in contrast with previous GRACE...  
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Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin has found that the East Antarctic ice sheet-home to about 90 percent of Earth's solid fresh water and previously considered stable-may have begun to lose ice. The team used Grace data to estimate Antarctica's ice mass between 2002 and 2009. Their results...  
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This Nov. 16, 2009 photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division shows an iceberg in the Southern Ocean 930 miles southeast of Tasmania, Australia. It is uncommon to find icebergs in this general region. (AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division ...  
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