It’s freezing here in Antarctica!
Today we walked trough the snow to see the penguins. While we were watching them dive into the freezing water suddenly they all started to waddle away from it. As we watched a huge leopard seal jumped out of the water and grabbed a penguin, before sliding back into the black water. Soon the penguins were back to diving into the water too feed, and eventually we had to walk back through the powdery white snow to our camp.
Antarctica is the world’s driest desert. Antarctica is a desert because the air is too cold to hold much water vapour. It has about 75% of the world’s fresh water, but as snow and ice. The arctic ice sheet holds up to 90% of the world’s ice. If all the ice in Antarctica was divided up, each person would get a chunk of ice larger than the great pyramid. In March 2000, the largest iceberg ever seen broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf. The iceberg was called B-15 and 300km long and 40km wide, which is about the size of Jamaica.
Today we walked trough the snow to see the penguins. While we were watching them dive into the freezing water suddenly they all started to waddle away from it. As we watched a huge leopard seal jumped out of the water and grabbed a penguin, before sliding back into the black water. Soon the penguins were back to diving into the water too feed, and eventually we had to walk back through the powdery white snow to our camp.
Antarctica is the world’s driest desert. Antarctica is a desert because the air is too cold to hold much water vapour. It has about 75% of the world’s fresh water, but as snow and ice. The arctic ice sheet holds up to 90% of the world’s ice. If all the ice in Antarctica was divided up, each person would get a chunk of ice larger than the great pyramid. In March 2000, the largest iceberg ever seen broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf. The iceberg was called B-15 and 300km long and 40km wide, which is about the size of Jamaica.
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