Antarctica A Continent Of Ice And Contrasts
August 15th, 2010
The wild brutality and immense beauty of Antarctica is the only one in this planet. Not one drop of blood from wars of man ever befell this ice continent. However, the immense cold of this place, which is much larger than what you get after combining America and Europe, is almost germ free thanks to the cold and humans have suffered more violent deaths than natural forms of demise. Today it is a continent of contrasts where men of antagonistic political faiths work together in harmonious concert, warm and comfortable three inches away from 100 below zero temperatures that would freeze their blood in seconds.
It is also interesting to note that Antarctica has become known to never allow any weight gain among people of the heartiest appetites, even as they ingest at least four meals or more a day thanks to the intense cold, eating away the calories a lot faster than any diet crazes people get obsessed with. This continent is also known to be the home of a unique affliction of mass insomnia known as the big eye, brought on by the never ending daylight of the summer season, that makes more and more residents unable to sleep thanks to the glaring 3 am sunshine. Further resources about adventure antarctica tours are located there.
The White Continent is home to the world’s most austere conservation laws. Now, human excrement have to be burned by the scientific field parties and they have to urinate only into sealed barrels with the extremely stringent regulations. Before whalers and sealers could come in, special licenses have to be secured to limit the cruel slaughter of these animals like what transpired a century back. Scientific efforts ranging from the evolution of mesozoic and cenozoic depositional basins of the northern Antarctic Peninsula and the South Orkney Islands, the origin of ice crystals in polar precipitations and even pygoscelid penguins’ adaptation to the ecology, Americans alone spend up to 45 million dollars with the National Science Foundation’s efforts.
The busy summer season, starting in November and ending around the middle of February, women scour several of the various research stations, and the most apparent growth of the female force would be at Vostok, near the geomagnetic pole. But then this continent has never witnessed one female navy spending wintertime here and no one probably will basing on the navy brass. But pressure is ever growing as the Pentagon is obliged to add in more ladies for the wintering-over parties in both the McMurdo research hub as well as the place 728 miles farther south, the South Pole, of course.
The senior naval officer states that except for one thing, they do not have any objections to the plan. So that we can let the ladies in for wintering over assignments, you must first help us determine the exact reaction of the wives of the men venturing down here upon learning that their men shall have to spend the longest night in the world with other women? A deeper insight relating to antarctic tours is found there.
Very far from the Arctic with its teeming bird life, herds of caribou and a huge populace of furred animals ranging from the Arctic hare to polar bears, the Antarctic does not have any life whatsoever except perhaps the seals along the coastline which are hardly ever residents there. Contrary to nature are the biggest bird population, the penguins, without any flyable wings or the ability to sing, for some of their kinds can lay their eggs and hatch their young in the dead of winter during the lowest temperatures that this land has ever known.
This desolate world is home to the most abundant marine life. The waters of Antarctica was home to many seals and whales and this was what drew the hunters in. They did not come for the experience. Hunters killed whale and seal for oil and skins, and this what led to New England’s great wealth. And one of them was 22 year old Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a sealer captain who was awarded credit by some after he discovered back in 1920, what we now know as the Antarctic Peninsula, named after him.
The biggest source of protein, according to experts, thrive in these waters, an estimated 1 and a half billion metric tons of these four inch long crustaceans known as krill. The protein that can be harvested at the bottom of these four season along with others washing the continental shelf of the fisheries, are much more than what any trawlers from different seas in the world combined can harvest, states the experts in this field.
It is the greed and butchery of seal and whale hunters that should be held responsible for the immense supply of krill today. Krill have been growing by the billions as their more formidable predators are nearing extinction, thanks to those who kill the baleen whales and the krill-eating seals.