Here is your chance to create your own page of fun facts about Antarctica. YOU can try and make this page a great place for people to come to find out stuff about Antarctica, the wildlife there, the history of Antarctica and the science being carried out there.
All you need to do is research to find your favourite fact about Antarctica and write it into a comment box. Don’t forget to leave your first name or initials. You don’t need to leave an email address. If your fact has already been written by someone else it won’t come up again so you will need to be inventive and find a new, interesting fact. The person with the best fact may get a mention when I am in Antarctica so get searching!
October 15th, 2007 at 4:58 am
I found out that Antarctica is a great place to find meteorites because they show up so well against the white ice and snow. Our teacher Mrs. Sanders showed us this website while doing Ecology.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Great to have the first fact from Australia Allison!
October 19th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
My father took part in a Himalayan expedition in 1960 which was led by Professor John Stevenson, who was the first Australian man to reach the South Pole with Vivian Fuchs in 1958. He drove a dog team to map a safe route ahead which the snow cats could follow. When they reached the South Pole there was an American base there called ‘Little America’. The Americans wanted to know whether the tents were for the dogs. (They weren’t!) The American base was beneath the ice with all kinds of luxuries; John told Dad that he had watched more films at the South Pole than in all the rest of his life! He was the second man after Amundsen to drive a dog team to the South Pole!
October 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I was really amazed to find out that Antarctica is the most dryest continent on earth. Only about 2 inches of snow falls there every year! Its very dry!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
If Antarctica’s ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
About 98% of the terrain is made up of ice and the other 2% is rock. And Also The coldest temperature ever recorded was in Antarctica on July 21, 1983 when it reached -129 degrees Fahrenheit!
October 30th, 2007 at 12:28 am
i was amazed to find out that there are no polar bears in Antarctica, and mum also told me that there is a c in Antar’c'tica, cause me and my friends always say ‘Antartica’
Damian Kimon
November 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Do you know why sometimes ice is blue in Antarctica? It’s because some of the ice is about 2 miles thick, so lots of ice gets squashed together. This causes oxygen in the ice to escape so now no sunlight can get through. This makes it look blue!! I’m so clever…
November 15th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Hmm…I really dont no any facts about antartica but mr blankley said we could put a joke so here goes…
Where do penguins go to dance?
At the snow ball…haha
What do penguins like to eat?
Ice Burg-ers-tht 1 aint tht funny
What do you call a penguin in a desert?
Lost! -shafaye told me that one in class
ok im done..lol
November 17th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Love that one Courtney and so did the other teachers. It cheered us up after
a very long hard day. Tell Mr Blankley it would be good to get some more
jokes!
June 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
hello i think that antarctica is a wicked place and i would love to live there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!