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Harsh Continent

Keywords and Key People

• Adelie penguin

• Roald Amundsen

• Antarctica

• crevasse

• global warming

• hydraulic system

• iceberg calving

• Ozone Hole

• Polar Plateau

• radiation

• scarf cutting

• Robert Falcon Scott

• Scott tent

• Sir Ernest Shackleton

• South Pole

• wind chill

Resources

• CIA World Factbook 2002: Antarctica (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ay.html)

• The Antarctica Convention - Antarctica Treaty (http://www.conama.cl/version_ingles/ins_framework/Inter_agreements/antarctica.htm)

• Antarctic Explorers (http://www.south-pole.com/p0000090.htm)

• Lonely Planet World Guide: Destination Antarctica (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/antarctica/antarctica/)

• Glacier Web Site (http://www.glacier.rice.edu/)

• Meteorites from Antarctica (http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/antmet/antmet.htm)

• Wired Antarctica (http://www.geophys.washington.edu/People/Students/ginny/antarctica/)

• University of Canterbury Antarctic Resources (http://www.anta.canterbury.ac.nz/frame.htm?resources.html~mainpb)

• Secrets of the Ice: An Antarctic Expedition, Museum of Science, Boston (http://www.secretsoftheice.org/)

• U.S. Geological Survey: Coastal Change and Glaciological Maps of Antarctica (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs50-98/)

• United States Antarctic Program (http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/usap.htm)

• Life in Extreme Environments: Antarctica (http://www.resa.net/nasa/antarctica.htm)

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