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= __** ﻿ ANTARCTIC ANIMALS**__ =

There are many different kinds of animals in Antarctica, like the blue whale, the emperor penguin, and the antarctic fur seal. There are all kinds of antarctic animals, but all of them are different in a certain way. Some animals like the whales,penguins,and seals have a layer of fat to protect them from the cold. check out these sites if you want to learn more click on [|antarctic animals] or [|antarctic animals 2].

and this is an elephant seal. This is an anarctic seal, = __**ANTARCTIC PLANTS**__ =

There are more plants on antarctica than people think. In total there are about 545 different kinds of plants! it equals 100 species of mosses, 25 species of liverworts, 400 species of lichens, and 20 odd species of macro-fungi. They are mostly found on western side of the Antarctic Peninsula. if you want more info, click on [|antarctic plants]. = ﻿__POPULATION__ = There are no people beause it is so cold. Which means they dont have an offical flag. Just because it is cold that does not mean people cant visit Antarctia. Just about 37,000 people vist a year. Most people that visit are scientists trying to study antarctica, in the summer there are just about 4,000 scientists.

Here is a speices of algea. = __﻿**LOCATION**__ = Antarctica is located Southeast of South America. It is also located near the Ross Sea, and Australia. It is located at 90 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude. = ﻿ = = ﻿﻿**__PLACE__** = Antarctica is very cold. It also has very high mountains and hills. Antarctica has no human features because no people live there.

= ﻿**__HEI__** = Due to humans not taking care of pollution and natural resources, parts of Antarctica's snow caps are melting at a rate that is dangerous to the Earth.

= **__Movement__** = There is very little movement as there aren't many inhabitants that are human. Most visitors come for scientific reasons or for tourism. There are 20 vessels that operate around Antartica that carry anywhere from 45-280 passengers each. = ﻿__**Regions**__ = There really arent many different regions in Antarctica. It is known for its complete sunshine during parts of the year and for its penguins and other animals such as seals and whales.