Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, and emptiest continent. It is covered in huge glaciers and has no land animals besides penguins. The temperature can drop as low as -87C. Scientists from over 20 countries live in research stations during the summer and winter to conduct experiments, but life there is difficult due to the extreme conditions and isolation. When an American doctor developed cancer while stationed there during the winter, she had no choice but to stay and treat herself until an air drop of medicine arrived, showing just how remote and challenging life in Antarctica can be.
Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, and emptiest continent. It is covered in huge glaciers and has no land animals besides penguins. The temperature can drop as low as -87C. Scientists from over 20 countries live in research stations during the summer and winter to conduct experiments, but life there is difficult due to the extreme conditions and isolation. When an American doctor developed cancer while stationed there during the winter, she had no choice but to stay and treat herself until an air drop of medicine arrived, showing just how remote and challenging life in Antarctica can be.
Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, and emptiest continent. It is covered in huge glaciers and has no land animals besides penguins. The temperature can drop as low as -87C. Scientists from over 20 countries live in research stations during the summer and winter to conduct experiments, but life there is difficult due to the extreme conditions and isolation. When an American doctor developed cancer while stationed there during the winter, she had no choice but to stay and treat herself until an air drop of medicine arrived, showing just how remote and challenging life in Antarctica can be.
It is unique. It is very big. It is like the United States and Australia together. Antarctica is the coldest place in the world. The tempera- ture is sometimes – 87C. August and September are the coldest months because there is no sun. ► Antarctica is very cold.
► The_________ is sometimes -87.
► Antarctica is like the_________ and _____
together Antarctica is at the southern tip of the world. It is the highest continent. It is 10 000 feet high. Antarctica also has very strong winds. The wind sometimes blows two hundred miles an hour. It is also the driest place in the world. Antarctica is drier than the Sahara Desert!! ► True or False
The Sahara Desert is not as dry as Antarctica.
Antarctica is also empty. There are huge glaciers and ice everywhere. A glacier is an area of ice that moves slowly. The ice and glaciers are beautiful. But most plants and land animals cannot live on the ice. It is too cold. There are no trees, no rivers, and no cities in Antarctica. There are no land animals. Only penguins and other sea birds live there. A glacier Antarctica does not belong to any one country. In fact, every country owns Antarctica. More than twenty countries have stations in Antarctica. A station is a place where scientists do experiments. There are separate stations for different countries. The scientists are the only people who live in Antarctica. In all, over four thousand people live at the stations in the summer. Over one thousand people live there in the winter. Stations in Antarctica Life on an Antarctica station is hard. It is like on a space station. The sun shines for six months, and then it is night for six months. People usually have problems with sleeping and eating. They eat more because there are not busy. In an emergency, it is hard to get help. In 1999, an American doctor named Jerri Nielsen realized she was sick. She had cancer. It was winter, and airplanes could not land in Antarctica. She was the only doctor there. Dr Nielsen had no choice. She had to stay. An airplane dropped medicine to her, and she took care of herself. Several months later, Dr Nielsen returned to the U.S.A to get special medical help. ► Themedicine fell from the plane. It_____ from the plane.
The glaciers are very very big. They
are____.
Scientists go to Antarctica to do special
tests. They do______________. Dr Jerri Nielsen Today, more and more people visit Antarctica. Ships go to Antarctica during the summer months from November to February. People want to visit this unusual place, but they don ’t want to live there!