Resources
The schools, their champions and the Expedition team, will share their work freely through this website. This site also links to high quality educational sites about the Antarctic.
Links
Discovering Antarctica web site: Imagining Antarctica
Discovering Antarctica web site: What, Where, Why
Discovering Antarctica web site: A Changing Climate
Discovering Antarctica web site: Journey South
Discovering Antarctica web site: Destination Antarctica
Discovering Antarctica web site : Collect data
The award-winning Discovering Antarctica website was developed by the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers, in partnership with the British Antarctic Survey, with support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Other useful sites:
British Antarctic survey
National curriculum for geography-KS2
The main Expedition website
The BBC weather/climate change pages
Worldmapper
The Antarctic is the coldest place in the world (lowest recorded temperature is -89.9 C). It is also the windiest place in the world (fastest recorded wind speed of 300km/h). And it is technically a desert: it has less than 5cm of precipitation in a year.-
The Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959, which puts all territorial claims on hold ? so no-one actually owns Antarctica. It has been set aside as a scientific preserve, and military activity is prohibited in the region.
EXPEDITION
Andrew Moon and Andrew Regan will endeavour to cross the continent of Antarctica from the west coast to the South Pole...
