History of Antarctica:
The name Antarctica derives from the Greek antarktos, or "opposite arktos", a constellation in the northern sky. The early Greeks arrived at the idea of a southern continent not by observation of any phenomena, but by virtue of their ideals of symmetry: land to the north must be balanced by land to the south, otherwise the earth lose its equilibrium. The real story of Antarctica beings with the age of exploration.
Antarctica is a large land mass buried under a vast ice cap up to 4 Km thick in place's. Antarctica's total area is approximately 7 million square miles in summer, but doubles in size in the winter due to the large amount of sea ice, which forms it's periphery. In winter, the sea ice around Antarctica grows at the rate of 40,000 Sq. miles a day... The weight of this ice cup is so heavy that much of the ground below is pressed down below sea-level... The polar ice cup around the south pole advances about 33 feet annually. Antarctica is the 5th largest of the earth's seven continents. It surrounds the south pile and is circular in shape with a long arm, the antarctic peninsula, reaching out toward south america.
Statistics:
Area: 13,900,000 Sq.Km. [ 5,366,790 Sq.miles]
Population: no permanent resident's
Capital: none
Language's: English, Spanish, french, Norwegian, Chinese, polish, Russian, German, Japanese
Religions: not applicable
Currency: none
Main exports: none
Main imports: none
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