Interesting facts about Antarctica Continent | Antarctica fact & info

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Who was the first person who go here?
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• There are some places in Antarctica where there has not been snow or rain since the last 20 million years.

• Antarctica is 1.3 times larger than Europe.

• If you want to work in Antarctica, first you have to remove your wisdom teeth and appendix,
  even if they are completely healthy.

• Till date, the highest temperature in Antarctica has been recorded at 58.2 ° F (14.5 ° C).

• About 53 million years ago, Antarctica was very hot, so hot that the palm trees grew easily.
  on its edges. The temperature here was more than that of 20 ° C.

• The world’s driest place is Antarctica. Not only this, the driest place on the earth is also
  in Antarctica, which is called ‘Dry Valleys’.

• Antarctica also has a nuclear power station named McMurdo Station. This power station
  is running from here since 1962.

• You will not get any Polar Bear in Antarctica. They will only found in Arctic.

• On July 21, 1983, at Vostok station in Antarctica, the lowest temperature in the
  earth was recorded at -128.56 ° F.

• The average thickness of Antarctica ice is about 1.6 kilometres. And 90% of the
  world’s clean water is here but in the form of ice.

• You may not believe it but Antarctica also has an ATM.

• At some places in Antarctica, the air moves at the speed of 320km / h.

• Roald Amundsen of Norway was the first man, who first reached the South Pole.

• Nobody can know about the existence of Antarctica if this continent was not seen in 1820.
  First people thought that this is just a group of islands.

• Only Antarctica is the only continent on earth, where snakes are not found at all.

• The oldest Sperm has been found in Antarctica. 50 million years old sperm of a worm.

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The word Arctic comes from the Greek word for bear, arktos. It refers to two constellations
in the northern night sky: Ursa Major (Great Bear) and Ursa Minor (Little Bear), which contains Polaris,
the North Star. So roughly, Arctic relates to Polar Bear.

Similarly, Antarctic simply means ‘Anti-Arctic’ I.e., No Polar Bears are found here. (Anti-Polar bear)