December mornings on the continent of Antarctica bring brilliant sunshine and temperatures as high as -25 degrees. Add in gale-force winds that blow in all directions covering a two-mile thick glacier, and the wind chill that results can freeze your eyelids shut. A strong case can be made for the South Pole being the harshest location on the planet.
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Antarctica, magnificent in its beauty and unmerciful in its brutality, is a land unto itself. Man has never made war on this continent, which makes it unique. Despite the fact that battle has never reached this enormous continent, the sanitary cold kills germs to the point where men die more from violence there than illness.
Bigger than and all of Europe, Antarctica makes up a whopping 10 percent of the earth’s land. As daunting as it is expansive, Antarctica endures frigid temps of negative 89 degrees Celsius, and can incur winds of up to 192 mph! The Southern Ocean encircles this massive land mass.
Antarctica is the coldest and most desolate of all the regions of the planet. In the past, it made sense that Antarctica, with little use, could be shared by all nations. With the levels of the planet’s natural resources running low, more countries are now looking for additional resources.
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On his way home from the South Pole, Captain Robert Falcon Scott met his untimely demise in 1912. Suffering from hypothermia and starvation, Captain Scott and the individuals accompanying him, met their death. In the wake of his agonizing loss in the race to the South Pole, and his enhanced standing as a hero of the country, Captain Scott showed unwaivering strength as he confronted his death.
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