The ocean around the Antarctica is now officially announced as the world’s fifth ocean by the national geographic society on the 8th of June 2021.
As it is located at the bottom of the planet earth, it is officially named the “THE SOUTHERN OCEAN”.
It is 5 recognized oceans now, namely THE ATLANTIC, PACIFIC, INDIAN, and ARCTIC OCEAN including“THE SOUTHERN OCEAN”.
All other 4 oceans are known by the continents at their
border while the “SOUTHERN OCEAN” is known by its current.
The thing is it has been named officially on the “world
oceans day“ i.e 8th June. Scientists and other educational institutions are
saying that hereafter students can know more about the 5th new ocean more about
the 5th new oceans. There is more to know about the southern ocean (antarctic ocean).
As we all know Antarctica is a southern most continent with no countries or cities ,it is inhebitated are with large ice bergs covered . let us learn more about this windiest,driest and heighest continent.
Here are some interesting facts about Antarctica:
- You can find no indigenous population anywhere in Antarctica.
- According to the international association of the Antarctica tour operators, about 20,000 tourists have visited the Antarctic Peninsular in 2011.
- In winters, Antarctica goes under a dark most time due to the earth's tilt.
- No, it's not penguins live in a large number of tiny nematode worm.
- According to the British Antarctic Survey, there are the least diverse habitats on the planet earth in the matter of animals (fauna). This is because of the uttermost cold deserts.
- Over the last few decades, the flow of west
Antarctica's pine island glacier has been increasing very fast which put in 25%
of ice loss in Antarctica.
- Antarctica, the fifth-largest continent within the world, is additionally referred to as the Cold Desert.
- It is a sacred land with 90% freshwater. It is the coldest high-altitude and windiest continent on planet earth. Temperatures range from -93.2 degrees Celsius to 14.5 degrees Celsius. The highest temperature noted is 14.5 degrees Celsius.
- Lake Vostok may be a pristine freshwater lake buried beneath 2.5 miles of solid ice. It is about the dimensions of Lake Ontario and is that the largest of the quite 200 liquid lakes. The highest peak on Antarctica is that the Vinson Massif at 16,362 feet.
- The coldest temperature ever recorded on planet Earth was minus 128.56 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 89.2 degrees Celsius), registered on July 21, 1983, at Antarctica's Vostok station.
- Meteorites from Antarctica are a crucial area of study of fabric formed early within the system . The first meteorite was found in 1912 and named it as the Adelie Land meteorite. In 1969, a Japanese expedition discovered nine meteorites.
- Deep Lake is so salty that it doesn't freeze even at
the coldness of -15 degrees celsius. Antarctica is taken into account to be a
dessert that's the typical annual rainfall within the South Pole for the past
30 years is simply 10 mm. It contains metallurgical wonders like ice crystal
ice crystal is formed of small ice crystals that precipitate out of the humid
area it's like an icy fog.
- The continent's active volcano Mount Erebus is that the one and only volcano on your which features a molten lava lake in its crater. A few of those summits reach altitudes of quite 4,500 meters.
- Felicity Austin, a British researcher, has been skiing around much of Antarctica with none vehicles, covering a distance of 1744 kilometers in only 59 days. The cold region of Antarctica is additionally rich in volcanoes. The volcano, which is extremely on the brink of the world where the American research facility is found , erupts into marble.
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