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    Australias Formation

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    The Formation of Australia Although Australia has the least surface area compared to other continents, it does have a long geological history. Australia is formed by many geological elements resulting in the present-day Australia. Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents shifting (Appearing to be 'drifting') on Earth's surface. There have been many supercontinents, throughout history, which had existed on Earth's surface for millions of years. Supercontinents are a cluster…

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    decides to go to Antarctica on a grant to study her ancestor, Robert Falcon Scott. She is lost in ice and snow with nowhere to go. The air is below freezing and there is barely any food in the housing. She has a chance to go back home halfway through the trip but she decides to stay even though the weather is horrible. This is a external conflict she faces in the story. She has to face the freezing cold weather. She also has to start to eat differently since o vegetables grew in Antarctica.…

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    controlled by stopping deforestation, lesser use of air conditioners, more use of solar energy, using CNG (compressed natural gas) instead of petroleum and diesel. Antarctica is the coolest place in the earth, but in recent year’s human activities has increased in Antarctica, which led to increase in temperature and pollution in Antarctica. Some serious steps need to be taken against activities which lead global warming otherwise the result of global warming would be against the human…

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    something, right? Just their hair, it seems. Load and Re-Load weren’t to everyone’s taste, but guess what? Like they were still like a T-Rex attack – hair or not. Although if they wanna grow it all back that’d be swell. 9. They Played In Antarctica 9. THEY PLAYED IN ANTARCTICA Bit nippy out. Presumably in some sort of old-style race to get there before Iron Maiden could, Metallica semi-recently decided that the new territory metal bands had…

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    going to the Antarctic is a feeling of adventure or expedition because it is widely described as the last true wilderness on earth. The Antarctica is the highest, driest, coldest but also the remotest, quietest, purest land on the planet so that I want to feel how cold and pure it is. And the most attracts me is that no human population is native to the Antarctica, but the only residents are animals. Because of that, I could see animals along the coast of the Southern Ocean like kinds of…

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    The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is considering lifting the ban on whaling. Many people are horrified at the thought that anyone could even contemplate it. Whales suffer from all types of threats like ship strikes, over fishing of krill, habitat loss and chemical and sound pollution. Many problems have arose from climate change like less krill, food-rich areas moving south. However, the most disturbing threat is whaling. Before whaling began in the 11th century, there were than…

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    Drake Passage Analysis

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    this is a good read for you. Drakes Passage, A Cramped piece of ocean only 800 km wide. “The gap between the tip of South America and the end [islands] of the Antarctic Peninsula.” (82) The shortest passage to any islands around the continent of Antarctica. It may seem like a good idea to take advantage of this passage, but Drake’s Passage, addressed by some as…

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    Essay On Interglacials

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    The previous few million years of Earth 's climate has existed controlled by the ice age phases. The ice age phases consisted of extended cold temperature periods with glaciers where massive ice sheets grew on the mainland masses on and around the poles. Because of the ocean water evaporating, the water was being sealed up onto the land as ice. This ice sheet build up has drastically lowered worldwide sea level. Throughout the shorter, hotter, breaks called interglacials, the ice sheets have…

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    Robotic Penguinòs Once there was a civilization of robotic penguinòs. They became very hungry because on Mars all their food was burning up and they couldn’t cook the steak right cause they always burnt it so they would throw it away, which was a waste of food. The king/leader of the penguinòs had an idea, it was that they would fly to planet Earth so they could overrule it and take all of their food. So all the penguinòs load up their UFO’s and went on their way to Earth. Space travel in…

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    Rift Valley Essay

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    Coal reserves have been found in Antarctica, 500km from the South Pole. Due to the current climate of Antarctica only feasible explanation behind this discovery is that there has been a change in latitude throughout the continent. This supports the idea that Antarctica has not always been located at the South Pole where it is impossible for plants to grow. It is believed that when Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwanaland, forests and swamps were…

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