Antarctica

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 * [|Information about Antarctica]** from the World Factbook. The continent is larger than China and India combined.

A Trillon-Ton Iceberg Just Broke Free From Antarctica, Newsela, July 21, 2017. That iceberg is the size of the state of Delaware.


 * About Antarctica** from Australian Government Department of the Environment


 * Life at the South Pole** from South Pole Neutrino Observatory


 * [|Discovering Antarctica] from the British Antarctic Society **

**[|The Antarctic Treaty] 7 countries have land claims: Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom**



**Geography of Antarctica**

 * East and West: Geography of Antarctica** from NASA

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 * An Antarctic Volcano that Just Doesn't Make Any Sense, Phys.org ( ** April 7, 2015)

McMurdo Dry Valleys and Mars Exploration
In Antarctica, Scientists Are Lured to a Frozen Desert, New York Times (May 30, 2017)
 * The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest ice-free region on the continent and one of the driest places on the planet
 * Rocks in the valley appeared 600 million years ago during the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana
 * The Dry Valleys may be the closest earth equivalent to a Martian landscape

Dry Valleys from Dispatches from Polar Scientists



**Antarctic Exploration**

 * Image to the left is an ad for the 1920 film The Bottom of the World about the Shackleton Expedition **

Overview of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration from Exploratorium

The History of Antarctic Exploration, YouTube

Ernest Henry Shackleton, from BBC History

Shackleton Expedition from American Museum of Natural History

An Antarctic Expedition Frozen in Time has rediscovered and restored photographs from Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

Frank Hurley's Early Color Photographs of the Shackleton Endurance Voyage from State Library of New South Wales

Roald Amundsen from PBS American Experience



**Global Warming**

 * Link to Special Topic Page on Climate Change**

Antarctic Dispatches: Miles of Ice Collapsing into the Sea, New York Times (May 18, 2017)

[|Is Antarctica Melting?] from NASA

[|Greenland is Melting Away] from the //New York Times//, October 27, 2015

[|Climate Hot Map: Global Warming Effects Around the World] from the Union of Concerned Scientists

Our Planet Just Reached a Terrifying Milestone, Slate (February 2016). February 2016 was at the time the warmest month ever measured.

**Teaching about Antarctica**
[|Who Owns Antarctica?] from the Department of Environment, Australia


 * [|Antarctica Lesson Plans] from Miami University


 * [|Lesson Plans to accompany Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance] from NOVA