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The climate here at Antarctica is very cold. The average temperature is -50c degrees, although near the coast it can get to 9c. This is because of the coastal breeze. This is a dramatic change and the wormest point in Antarctica. If you do go to Antartica you will still need a coat if you are on the coast. It will be afun time if you do fell like going. Does this sound like fun? The climate is also a wetter area and snow very little. Although you may think it snows lots it's just that the snow barly ever melts which means that it just builds up. ======

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 * __ THE ANIMALS __ **

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If you go to Antarctica you will accualy find many different kinds of animals. The animals had to adapt to the climate and now use the snow to their advanage. They include fish, whales, & other parasites. These parasites live in the birds and under the ice. There are seals that nest on the beach and sunbath. The leopard Seal is one of the mean preditors found in Antarctica and their favorite meal is the Adelie Penguins. This seal got its name because of the pattern on its fur and because of the way they attack their prey. ======

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The people in here are mostly sientists. If you were to go here you would not see scientists just sitting around most of the time they are in a tent looking at the paracites that are in the snow. This is because they want to know what the land was like a long time ago. The really cool thing is they have found plant fossils of things found in Africa. There have been palm trees found here also of course they are fossilized. ======

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The location of Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere. It is in the Indean Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is south east of North America and south west of Australia. The South Pole is located here in the center of Antarctica. The Rose Sea is just off the coast of Antarctica as well as the South Magnetic Pole. Antarctica does have cities some are....... ======
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 * Neumayer
 * Scott
 * Mawson
 * McMurdo

**__ Human Environment Interactions __ **

Antarctica is actually not its own country it is only a continent. Nor does Antarctica have its own military. The Antarctic Treaty was signed Dec. 1,1959and was put into force June 23,1961.Currently there are 42 treaty member nations, 26 of the nations are consultative and 16 acceding. These nations include US, Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK. Nonclaimant consultative nations are - Belgium, Brazil, [1983].There are railroas to provide transportation. There are also laws in Antarctica such as Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

**__ MOVEMENT __** These are some of the imports and exports are oil and petroleum. Others such as fish and shrimp are major money making buisness. There are only a couple of problems with the oil drillibng and those are that there are riskes of spills and destroying animal habbitat. There are good and bad things about research and all we can do is hope for the best. The scientists are sailing ships in the sea in the natural live quarters. They are also drilling for oil in the Antarctic Ocean and that raises the risk of an oil spill. All ways remember to be careful and don't do anything stupid to ruin the animals habbitat.