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Majestic, Wonderful, Amazing mystic, Unique...
" and more words are necessary to describe
the largest wild surface of the planet. Well-known as " the White Continent " or " the Sixth Continent ",it is 1,000 km away from Ushuaia. It is the less explored continent in the Earth. Its surface, of about 14,000,000 square km, mainly is represented by an ice layer of about 4,000 ms of thickness, covering a continental mass of 9,000,000 square km. It is one of the magical destinations that can be offered and one of the easiest to sell, since without knowing it has the same mystery to the buyer as to the salesman. Each passenger who returns from Antarctica, hardly find the words to describe it, they just suggest to visit it to discover how wonderful is to be in that place. The volume of the visitors is increased year after year. The nearest city to Antartica is Ushuaia. " Gateway to Antartica ", this is one of the reasons for which all the ships that go there, leave from our Port. There is an arc of islands that cause that the Antarctica Peninsula continues towards the Weddel Sea, these islands are South Shetland, South Georgias, South Sandwich and South Orkneys. Some islands as Deception Island have suffered recently vulcano activity. The average temperature is under 0º Celsius.  The
South Pole, is located 2,800 ms over the sea
level. The temperature vary between -40º C and
-70º C in August and -15º and -45º in
February. In addition to the global wind
currents, the Antarctica continent creates its
own wind system. The strongest winds are found
usually throughout the coast of the region called
Great Antarctica. Some areas, are calmed most of
the time but suddenly winds with hurricane force
called " kabatic " start. Almost all
the continent is desert. Most of the animals that inhabit Antarctica, are adapted to live in a frozen sea. The seals crab eater seals and the Ross seals alternate on and under the ice layer, also are the seals leopards that remain long time outside the water. The Emperor Penguin lives in the frozen sea during the winter, the other penguins live on the ice in the summer but they get close to the ice layer edge of the sea during the rest of the year. Many marine birds develop on the ice to hunt and to feed themselves. |
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