THE

JOURNEY
TO THE END OF THE
EARTH – By Tishani Doshi

- A presentation by
Shahrukh Mehta (Vice-Principal)
VASISHTHA
GENESIS SCHOOL
At & Po. Baben, Opp. Avadh Life Style, Bardoli Dist : Surat 394601, Gujarat, INDIA
www.vasishthagenesisschool.ac.in | vgsbardoli@gmail.com | +91 91575 44555
LEARNING OUTCOME

Students will be able to :-

• Be familiar with contents of the lesson and make them their own.
• Develop an interest in travelling to places of natural beauty and thereby the
interest in working for a sustainable earth.
• Appreciate and empathize with and follow the initiatives taken at national and
international levels for a sustainable earth.
• Understand the direct impact of carbon emissions which affect the ozone layer
which in turn melts the polar ice layers.
• Understand what is “Students on Ice” programme and explore if possible the
possibilities of joining it.
• Develop the attitude of caring for his/her immediate environment through
practices like avoiding plastic, proper segregation and disposal of waste,
judicious use of water and power, less use of fossil fuels, etc.
• Have a more scholarly and empathetic approach to towards his immediate
surroundings.
ABOUT ANTARCTICA

Antarctica

Antarctica, the southernmost continent and site of the South Pole, is a virtually uninhabited, ice-covered landmass. Most cruises
to the continent visit the Antarctic Peninsula, which stretches toward South America.
It’s known for the Lemaire Channel and Paradise Harbor, striking, iceberg-flanked passageways, and Port Lockroy, a former British
research station turned museum. The peninsula’s isolated terrain also shelters rich wildlife, including many penguins.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TISHANI DOSHI
(A WRITER AND A DANCER)
Tishani Doshi (9 December 1975) is an Indian poet, journalist and a dancer based in Chennai. Born
in Madras, India, to a Welsh mother and Gujarati father, she graduated with a Master’s degree in
Creative Writing from the Johns Hopkins University. She received Eric Gregory Award in 2001. Her
first poetry collection Countries of the Body won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize for the best first
collection. Her First novel The Pleasure Seekers was published by Bloomsbury in 2010 and was
long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2011 and shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010.
She works as a freelance writer and worked with choreographer Chandralekha. Her poetry
collection Everything Begins Elsewhere was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2013. Her most
recent book of poetry, Girls Are Coming Out Of the Woods, was published by HarperCollins India in
2017. She writes a blog titled ‘Hit or Miss’ on Cricinfo, a cricket related website.
Works as a freelance journalist, contributing to various newspapers such as The Guardian, The
International Herald Tribune, The Hindu & The New Indian Express
THE JOURNEY
Sea and Air Routes
From India to Antarctica

Madras (now Chennai)

13.09֯ North of Equator
THEME
Tishani Doshi’s visit to Antarctica, the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world, aboard the
Russian research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy, gave her a deeper understanding and a better
perspective to the damage caused by human impact on earth. Antarctica, though unpopulated, has
been affected and there is a growing concern for its half a million year old carbon records trapped
under its ice sheets.
The ‘Students on Ice’ programme takes high school students to Antarctica to create awareness in them,
the future policy makers, and helps students realise that the threat of global warming is very real.

Akademik Shokalskiy
(Russian Research Vessel)
GONDWANA – The Supercontinent

Gondwana
650 million years ago
Super-Continent

The Split Up
Approximately 165 million years ago
FORMATIONS
These are the granite sheets which
are formed approximately 4.5 Formation of Himalayas
Cordilleran Folds billion years ago, until the start of
the Cambrian approx 540 mya

Cordilleran folds are formed by

system or group of parallel
mountain ranges together with
the intervening plateaus and
other features.
India Pushing northwards,
jamming against Asia to
Pre Cambrian Granite Shields form Himalayas
FORMATION OF THE HIMALAYAS

Indo-Australian Plate crashing into

the Eurasian Plate
FORMATIONS

Drake Passage
South America drifting off
to join North America,
opening up the DRAKE
PASSAGE to create
circumpolar current

The Drake Passage is the

body of water between
the southern tip of South
America at Cape Horn,
Chile and the South
Shetland
Islands of Antarctica
FORMATIONS

Circumpolar Current
The Antarctic Circumpolar
Current (ACC) is
an ocean current that
flows clockwise from
west to east
around Antarctica.
PHYTOPLANKTON
A varied group of tiny free floating plants. In spring
and early summer their numbers increase rapidly,
producing "blooms" like a think pea soup which can
cover thousand of square kilometers of the ocean
FLORA OF ANTARCTICA

Simple plants like algae,

mosses, liverworts,
lichens and microscopic
fungi can survive and
grow in Antarctica
FAUNA OF ANTARCTICA
ICE SHIFTS - CALVING Effects of Climate Change

Calving
Calving is the sudden
release and breaking
away of a mass
of ice from
a glacier, iceberg, ice
front, ice shelf,
or crevasse
ICE SHIFTS - AVALANCHE Effects of Climate Change

Avalanche
An avalanche is a sudden,
drastic flow of snow down
a slope, occurring when
either natural triggers,
such as loading from new
snow or rain, or artificial
triggers, such as
snowmobilers, explosives
or backcountry skiers,
overload the snowpack
THANK
YOU
- A presentation by
Shahrukh Mehta (Vice-Principal)
VASISHTHA
GENESIS SCHOOL
At & Po. Baben, Opp. Avadh Life Style, Bardoli Dist : Surat 394601, Gujarat, INDIA
www.vasishthagenesisschool.ac.in | vgsbardoli@gmail.com | +91 91575 44555