Title: Journey to the end of the Earth
1. Author’s journey to Ant.
i. Travelled by Akademik Shokalskiy
ii. Travelled 100 hrs.
iii. Crossed
a.) nine time zones
b.) six checkpoints
c.) three bodies of water
d.) many ecospheres
2. History of Ant.
i. 650 mil yrs ago Gondwana
ii. No humans, climate warm
iii. 150 mil yrs ago separation started
3. Contemporary Ant.
i. Very cold
ii. 90 % of world ice
iii. White landscape
iv. ubiquitous silence
v. midges, mites and blue whales
4. Human Impact on Ant.
i. created quite a ruckus
ii. Population, CO2, G.W.
iii. Ozone hole
iv. Ant. Best place to study earth’s past, present, future
5. Students on Ice Prog.
i. Geoff Green started the prog.
ii. To spread awareness
iii. Students from the world taken to Ant.
iv. Hope for new future
Key to Abbreviations
1. Ant. = Antarctica
2. Hrs. = hours
3. Yrs. = years
4. G.W. =Global warming
5. Prog. = Program
