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Antarctica Average Temperature The average temperature in Antarctica is -50 degrees Celsius -58 degrees Fahrenheit. Weather observations in Antarctica have been recorded only for the last 150 years. Detailed climatic monitoring began in the late 1950's. Most Antarctic stations today are equipped with sophisticated weather monitoring technology and are manned by professional meteorologists who perform observations around the clock. Automated stations and remote sensing equipment provide a wealth of previously unattainable data and help to paint a more accurate picture of Antarctic weather continent-wide. Satellite measurements and photographs of the continent continue to reveal valuable information concerning cloud cover, storm movement, ice formation and distribution patterns, and a variety of other environmental characteristics. Heres a link []. This is temperatrue of antarcttc.

Plants . Only two native vascular plants, the Antarctic hair grass //Deschampsia Antarctica// and a cushion-forming pearlwort, //Colobanthus quitensis//, survive south of 56°S. They occur in small clumps near the shore of the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. This is in marked contrast to the Arctic regions where nearly 100 flowering plants are found at 84°N. Both plants can tolerate very cold and dry conditions. They continue to function at freezing point, when the rate at which they convert sunlight into chemical energy drops to about 30 to 40 per cent of that reached during the most favorable condition. Heres a link http://www.mapsofworld.com/antarctica/wild-life/plants.html Animals Antarctica — home to ice, penguins, and...What else is there? It's hard to picture a creature that could not only live, but actually thrive, in such a harsh and inhospitable environment. Yet many other animals can be found in the seas and on the icy grounds besides that infamous black and white bird. Fish, seals, and krill are just a few that have made Antarctica their home, enduring winds that can reach up to 320 km/hour and surviving the continent that contains the largest desert in the world. Heres a link [] Scientists Antarctica and the surrounding area are natural laboratories for scientific research that can not be done anywhere else on Earth. Among the unusual aspects of the continent are its harsh climate and extreme cold, frigid ice-filled oceans, vast polar ice cap and large glaciers, geologic formations and structures that are related to more northerly land masses, uniquely adapted forms of plant and animal life, and unusual meteorological phenomena. These are covered by scientific disciplines that have attracted exploration and scientific curiosity for more than a hundred years. Here is the place for the meteorologist, oceanographer, atmospheric physicist, geologist, glaciologist, seismologist, geophysicis of medicine who are examining the effects of the Antarctic environment on human physiology. The research involving so many disciplines is carried out by scientists among the faculty and students of colleges and universities, government agencies and private industry, biologist, and zoologist, and even the people Here a link www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/science/index.shtml

