MOON REGAN TRANSANTARCTIC EXPEDITION

Winston Wong | Imperial College London


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

Schools »

ANTARCTICA FACTS

  • 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 planet's southernmost landmass also contains 80% of the world's fresh water. There are places where the ice is over 10,000 feet thick, and the ice cap itself is more than 40 million years old.

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