This time we gathered in the Antarctica room on www.weblin.com to start our exploration of the south pole region. The continent lots of people forget, when get asked which are the continents of our earth.

And by far not the smallest. We learned this on the interactive page:

http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk/multimedia/flash/2_sizingup.html

Yes, bigger then Australia and also bigger then Europe. This even in summer and only the land mass. In winter Antarctica grows 100%, covering its coasts with connected ice shells.

We also discovered the question: What time is it on Antarcitca?

Afterwards we tested our knowledge of Antarctica, the biggest existing wilderness:

For example how much water of our planet does the Antarctica contain?

http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk/multimedia/flash/1_wilderness.html

Lots of answers for these questions got more severly answered, when we visited the national geographic interactive map:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/antarctica

There we discovered penguins flying under water, the first explorers and hot spots of the melting ice suveys.

Especially, since sattelite circle in our orbit the effects of climate change can be observed very well. So we visited then the nasa to get more informations about the melting ice of Antarcitca.

At first we had a look at the hotspots of melting ice obeserved by them.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/arctic-20070515.html

You can find under the earth section also the new nasa movie about their research results concerning the melting poles.

The last stop brought us to a pricture report concerning the beauty of Antarcica by concerning also the dangers for the last big wilderness facing climate change.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-29636-8.html#backToArticle=539372