Antarctic Polar Regions Geography Social Studies

Offers a look at the geography, climate, people and location of this icy continent. Also includes profiles of Antarctic explorers, information on fossils found in the region, interactive quiz, and a view from space.

• Live from Antarctica 2 - Explores life under, on, and high above the Southern Ocean.
• Darryn's Antarctica - Learn about Antarctic topics such as weather, penguins, history, photography, geography jobs, and tourism from someone who has worked and lived geography there. Includes diaries and FAQs.
• Antarctica Online - Explores the history, culture, and scientific value of antarctic the continent. Also boasts extensive photo collection.
• NOVA Online: Warnings from the Ice - Offers information about Antarctica and tells how ice geography cores provide antarctic a record of the past. Discusses geography how the world\\'s coastlines antarctic would recede if some geography or all of the Antarctic ice antarctic were to geography melt.
• Secrets of the Ice - Museum of Science in Boston - Follow the progress of a four-year Antarctic expedition of scientists based at the University of New Hampshire. Learn about the climate and environment, ice core research, and the expedition.
• Antarctica: The End Of The Earth - PBS site offers a glimpse into life in antarctic the land antarctic of powerful winds and massive icebergs.
• Sunrise at the South Pole - See the dawn of a new day in geography Antarctica as geography autumn begins in Earth's northern hemisphere.
• Journey to the Frozen Continent - Thinkquest Jr. site tells about the land of antarctic Antarctica, its geography climate, the animals that live there, antarctic and explorers who have geography visited.
• MSN Encarta: Antarctica - Article and multimedia items offer an introduction to this land polar regions of ice.
• NOVA: Mountain of Ice - Read an interview with explorer Jon Krakauer who geography climbed Antarctica\\'s highest mountain, find out what it geography was like to film the journey, see what geography coastlines around the world would look like if geography the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed, and explore geography the life cyc
• EnchantedLearning.com: Antarctica - Offers a look at the geography, climate, people antarctic and location antarctic of this icy continent. Also includes antarctic profiles of Antarctic explorers, antarctic information on fossils found antarctic in the region, interactive quiz, and antarctic a view antarctic from space.
• CIA World Factbook - Antarctica - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, antarctic economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
• Antarctica: The Continent of Wonder - Examines the uniqueness of the world\\'s coldest, driest and windiest geography continent -- a place where researchers from around the world geography work together in peace.
• Virtual Tour: Antarctica - Photos, text and maps provide a virtual tour polar regions of antarctic the South Pole.
• FAQ on Antarctica - A scientist living on Antarctica answers questions about the continent and what he's doing there.
• Wired Antarctica - Learn about the people doing research in Antarctica, polar regions what geography life is like there and how their polar regions research is geography important.
• Frozen Under - National Geographic article examines the attraction earth\\'s coldest polar regions continent polar regions holds for scientists and 15,000 tourists a polar regions year.
• National Geographic Sea Lab: Antarctic - Dispatches, photos, and video depict life on an geography icebreaker as geography the crew studies krill and other geography Antarctic species.
• Irish Antarctic Adventure 1997: South Aris - Follow a group of experienced Irish sailors and geography mountaineers attempted geography to retrace the footsteps of the geography epic journey made by geography Ernest Shackleton in 1915. geography Also learn about the geography, climate geography and wildlife geography of the region.
• Australian Antarctic Division - Downloadable photos and virtual reality images to explore. antarctic Recent news about the Australian Antarctic Division. Detailed antarctic information about wildlife, plants, weather, and glaciers/ice. Searchable antarctic database of scientific data including maps, images, and antarctic grap

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