Antarctica’s southern ocean is full of unanswered questions — and this year’s antarctica new zealand scholarship recipients are on a mission to help solve them. Dramatic and extreme changes in antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size.
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Cool australian antarctic program news about wildlife, scientific research, stations (bases), expeditioners, ships, the environment and jobs in antarctica.
Though antarctica is really, really chilly, it is considered a desert because it receives very little rain or snowfall
The small amount of snow that does fall does not melt but builds up over hundreds and thousands of years to form large, thick ice sheets. The ‘frozen continent’ of antarctica has long fascinated new zealanders New zealand’s close association with antarctica began more than 100 years ago when explorers and scientists left new zealand ports to discover this vast icy continent and make their way to the pole.
