Antarctica

Geography
 FIFHT LARGEST
CONTINENT IN
TERMS OF TOTAL
AREA

A COLD REMOTE AREA IN SOUTHERN

HEMISPHERE ENCOMPASSED BY THE
ANTARCTIC CONVERGENCE
 ANTARTICA
CONVERGENCE
 ANTARTICA
CONVERGENCE

Uneven line Of latitude where

call northward Flowing antartic
water meet the warmer water
of the worlds oceans
7 nation claimed
different parts of
antarctica
 7 nation claimed different parts of
antarctica

New zealand AUSTRAL FRANCE

Claimed the scott claimed IA
the Heard
island and balleny and McDonald
island Island

CHILE

NORWAY UNITED
claimed the Petter and claimedKINGDOM
the South Shetland,
Bouvet Island south orkney,south georgia
and south sandwich island ARGENTINA
Antarctic Ice sheet
 Antarctic Ice sheet

largest single piece of ice on earth

-grows about 3 million square kilometer
(summer)
19 million square kilometer (winter)
ROSS and RONNE
Ice sheet
 Ronne Ice shelf

large ice shelf lying

at the head of weddel
sea
 Ross Ice shelf

known as the great

white barier and is the
largest ice shelf of
antarctic
Transantarctic
Mountains
 Transantarctic
Mountains

this divides the

continent of antarctic into
eastern and western
region
Contents of Antarctica
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 Content in Antarctica
West Antarctica
West Antarctica is largely
covered by the Antarctic ice
sheet, but there have been
signs that climate change is
having some effect and that
this ice sheet may have started
to shrink slightly.
East Antarctica
Apart from small areas of the
coast, East Antarctica is
permanently covered by ice
and it has relatively low
biodiversity, with only a small
number of species of
terrestrial plants, animals,
algae, and lichens.
Greater Antarctica

also known as east

antarctica are composed
of older igneous and
metamorphic rocks
 Lesser Antarctica

also known as the West

Antarctica is made up of yiunger
volcanic and sedimentary rocks
and is part of the ring of fire
 Mount Erebus

It is located on Antarctic
Ross Island and is the
southern most active
volcano
CLIMATE
 Climate

has an extremely
cold and dry climate
during winter it
range from -10°
celsius to -30° celsius
and around 0°C to
9°C during summer
Antarctic is hard to
measure
 Antarctica

Antarctic region has

an important role in
global climate
processes and it has
integral part of the
earths heat and
balance
Size of Antarctica
 Antarctica
fifth in size
among the
world’s
continents.

Its landmass is almost wholly

covered by a vast ice sheet.
 thick mass of floating
ice that is attached to
land, formed from and
fed by tongues of
glaciers extending
outward from the land
into sheltered waters.

ICE SHEET
The continental ice sheet contains approximately 7 million cubic
miles (about 29 million cubic km) of ice, representing about 90
percent of the world’s ice and 80 percent of its fresh water. Its
average thickness is about 5,900 feet (1,800 metres).
5.5 million square
miles (14.2 million
square km)
SIZE
Human Geography
Human Geography

Human
Geography of
Antarctica is
inevitably
linked to access
to the land
 Human Geography

the snow the most habitable

ice is constantly
places for humans
moving and, continuously are the small coastal
up on the plateau
accumulates ice-free zones.
Of course, these are also the areas most
favoured by wildlife, nearly all of which are
summer visitors that visit to feed and
reproduce. Thus there is an inherent
competition for areas that can be settled.
With few exceptions, the almost limitless
Antarctic ice cap is largely unoccupied by
humans unless there are short term
scientific projects.
Further offshore are the sub-Antarctic
islands – small, remote, desolate and in
many cases uninhabited outposts of land.
They are uninhabited – that is, except for
vast congregations of wildlife. Seals,
seabirds and vegetation teem over these
islands which provide habitat and refuge
not available in the ice-bound lands
further south
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