The Blue Whale

Antarctica

The blue whale

The blue whale is the biggest animal in the whole world and is the biggest species of whale. It is also the loudest animal on Earth - even louder than a jet plane. When Blue Whales breathes through 2 blowholes; their blow is a stream that rises 40-50 feet above the water.

The Emperor Penguin

The emperor penguin is the world’s largest penguin. Penguins are birds that cannot fly but they are very good swimmers. Penguins spend most of their lives in the sea. The Emperor Penguin lives in colonies on the ice in Antarctica. Its feathers are very shiny. The penguin is 3.7 feet tall or 1.1 metres. Antarctica food chain

Antarctic explores.

Captain Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a British naval officer and Antarctic explorer. Scott led two expeditions to the South Pole, and died on the disastrous second trip, along with his crew. His expedition was the second to reach the South Pole (1910-1912); Roald Amundsen (1872 1928) was a Norwegian explorer who was the first person to reach the South Pole. Amundsen and his fellow explorers reached the South Pole on December 14 1911, traveling by a sledge pulled dogs. Amundsen was also the first person to sail around the world through the Northeast and Northwest passages. Amundsen died in a plane crash attempting to rescue his friend, the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile who was lost in an airship.

What does Antarctica look like?

If you are in Antarctica then where ever you are then it is white. Sometimes it can be very dangerous because you could have a white out. A white out is where you can only see white. It happens when it snows. Antarctic mountains

The Transantarctic Mountains stretch for more than 2000 miles. They start at Victoria Land and end at the Weddell Sea. Mount Kirkpatrick is the tallest mountain in Antarctica (in the Queen Maud Mountains) is 4528 metres high. The south pole in general

The South Pole is the coldest most windiest and driest place on the whole of the world. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was at the South Pole. It was -128.6°F (-88.0°C)! On average, most of Antarctica gets less than 2 inches of snow each. The ice in some parts of Antarctica can reach 1 mile thick some times.

Antarctica is covered by permafrost (permanently frozen ground), is surrounded by water, and is about 1 1/2 times larger than the United States. The world's largest desert is on Antarctica. 98%of the land is covered with a continental ice sheet; the remaining 2 %of land is rock. Antarctica has about 87% of the world's ice. Only2 % of Antarctica is free of ice.

The Northern lights are a colourful glow that can be seen in the night sky, usually in the North Pole. These lights are also called the aurora borealis, which is Latin for "northern dawn”. They are caused by the solar wind which uses the energy of the sun to make them. A similar event happens at the South Pole, called the aurora australis.