novel? This novel is set in Antarctica in present day. The opening page of the novel shows the reader where the ice station is situated on a map. With further research I found out that all of the surrounding ice stations‚ including where the story is set‚ are in fact‚ real. As the title suggests‚ the setting is very important. The landscape is excruciatingly detailed. At the start of the novel‚ Matthew Reilly includes exerts from "The Cambridge Lectures: Antarctica - the living continent." To describe
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HOW DOES TOURISM IMPACT THE ENVIRONMENT The effect of tourism on the environment can be both positive and negative. Each person or group of people will impact the area they visit in a different way. Whether it is in a negative or positive manner is entirely up to the visitor. Let’s consider the NEGATIVE impacts first: POLLUTION - This is probably the biggest negative factor concerning tourism. People have to travel to their destination. It doesn’t matter if it’s by plane to another country or
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According to (Oskin‚ 2013)‚ modern West Antarctica is one of the fastest-warming places on the planet and the middle of West Antarctica has warmed by 4.4 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 degrees Celsius) since 1958‚ three times as fast as the overall rate of global warming. It is also known that some islands have disappeared from being covered by water. Scientists predict an increase in sea levels worldwide due to the melting of two massive ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland‚ especially on the //East
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haven’t written to you earlier but I had to organize some things for my trip. As you probably remember‚ I’ve always wanted to visit some unusual places. And now‚ at last‚ I´m! But you’d never guess where I’ve chosen to spend my holiday. It’s Antarctica! You would never think of it‚ would you? I’m so excited about the whole event! The people I travel with are incredible. It’s their fourteenth expedition there. They know every path in the snow by heart and they are very helpful. They share
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The southern ocean is 7.848 million miles2 . I will be traveling to antarctica next and here are some fact about it. It is about 5.405 million miles long. And it is pretty cold there in Antarctica‚ with an approximate population of 4000 in summer and 1000 in winter. Next i will be traveling to the arctic ocean. The arctic ocean is the smallest and the shallowest of the five major
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how they believe their own race is superior than the others and attempt to belittle them in order to showcase their so-called "superiority." If they keep it up‚ then we will have to teach them about racial equality the hard way: by sending them to Antarctica. This particular
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kill whales in this sanctuary in Antarctica. They are the Sea Shepherds and they operate under the United Nations World Charter for Nature. Which gives citizens the right to uphold laws when governments are too scared to do so. These are their battles this is their war. Sea Shepherd is a group of passionate non-violent volunteers that crew the four ships of Sea Shepherd that proudly fly their own version of the Jolly Roger on their ships. They head to Antarctica every year to do what they do
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Grunehogna collided with the rest of East Antarctica during the Mesoproterozoic assembly of the supercontinent Rodinia and the Grenville orogeny. The Neoproterozoic Pan-African orogeny and the assembly of Gondwana/Pannotia produced large shear zones between Grunehogna and Kalahari. During the Jurassic break-up of Gondwana these shear zones finally separated Grunehogna and the rest of Antarctica from Africa.[8] In the Annandags Peaks‚ the only exposed parts of Grunehogna
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Atlantis was Antarctica‚ and Atlantis was the legendary Minoan civilization. Overall‚ Atlantis did once exist and can possibly be ‘till this day. First‚ we will begin with how Atlantis was a mid-Atlantic continent that suddenly sank into the ocean. The Atlantic Ocean was only a few hundred feet deep‚ described as a continent flooded by shifting ocean waters that sank in the exact location Plato said it would (“Explaining the Legend”). Next‚ is the theory of Atlantis being Antarctica‚ where people
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The issue of global warming has become a hot topic in not only in American‚ but all over the world. For years‚ many politicians have evaded the issue of global warming. But now‚ all of a sudden‚ the Democratic Party vows to combat global warming. Now that the Democratic Party has majority in both houses on Congress‚ they have taken an emphasis over environmental issues‚ mostly involving global warming. On January 30th‚ 2007‚ Congress held its first hearing about global warming. What was concluded
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