We still don’t know much about our planet. In particular, this applies to inaccessible places with harsh climatic conditions. This is what makes Antarctica the most mysterious place on Earth, because the icy desert is fraught with many unsolved secrets. Scientists have just begun to study the vast territories of this continent in search of interesting places and phenomena. But now quite a lot of facts about Antarctica have been collected. It is about them that we will tell in our article.
The first pair formed in the Antarctic with the help of the Tinder.
The American researcher was the first and so far the only person on this continent who met using the popular Tinder mobile application. For fun, he stopped by to see if there were any women on the icy, uninhabited continent. At first, they were not found, but after expanding the search radius, he found a female researcher living in a 45-minute helicopter flight. Thus, he was the first on this continent to find a pair for himself on the Tinder.
Places without snow
On a continent that seemed to be completely covered with ice and snow, approximately 1% of the area (4000 km 2) is constantly dry. Scientists call such zones dry valleys, or oceanic oases. These areas, which have not seen rain or snow for several million years, are rightfully the most ancient deserts on the planet. According to calculations, due to climatic changes by the end of our century, this could become about a quarter of the continent, which will lead to dramatic changes in its fauna.
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"Bloody" waterfall among ice cliffs
To be honest, there is no real blood. When the level of the World Ocean rose several million years ago, the eastern part of Antarctica was covered with sea water, and then a salt body appeared in this place. Millions of years later, the Taylor Glacier formed over the lake, and the water inside the lake became even more salty - several times more compared to sea water. For this reason, it does not freeze. In addition, this water contains a large amount of iron. When it comes in contact with oxygen contained in the air, the iron oxidizes and turns red, leaving bloody spots on the ice.
Favorite meteorite fall place
According to scientists, the probability of a meteorite falling is approximately equal for any place on Earth. However, if they fall in the jungle, then due to high humidity they will gradually collapse. At the same time, in the extremely dry climate of Antarctica, the likelihood of corrosion is reduced to almost zero. In addition, stone meteorites are much easier to detect on the white surface of the icy continent. Another interesting fact: sometimes under the influence of strong wind and sunlight, the upper layers of ice evaporate, and then many extraterrestrial stones are found under them. Since 1976, more than 20 thousand samples of rocks of various meteorites have been collected on the territory of the Antarctic.
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The largest freshwater tank in the world
About 90% of the Earth’s ice and approximately 70% of the world's fresh water reserves are collected on the continent. If all Arctic ice is melted, the level of ocean waters will rise by more than 60 meters, which will lead to a global catastrophe.
The average thickness of the Antarctic ice crust is 1.6 km
With the exception of a small number of dry valleys (approximately 1% of the territory), the southernmost continent is completely covered with thick ice cover. Its thickness varies with geographic location. Thus, the ice in the eastern part of the content is much thicker than in West Antarctica. On average, the ice cover is 1.6 km thick, but in some areas it can reach 5 kilometers.
Jamaica-sized block of ice
The B-15 iceberg, with a length of almost 300 kilometers and a width of almost 40 kilometers, is the largest registered iceberg in the world in the history of research on the ice continent. Its total area was 11 thousand square kilometers, which made the iceberg larger than the island state of Jamaica. The total mass of the iceberg in this case exceeded 3 trillion tons. In 2000, the B-15 split into smaller fragments, after which they sailed off to drift over the sea and melted away about five years later, but before that the wreckage had a serious impact on the ecology of the Antarctic. Because of these icebergs, there was a disruption in the supply of resources for research bases, as well as a decrease in the population of Adelie penguins.
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First Antarctic native
The newborn Emilio Marcos Palma in 1978 entered the history of the world as the first person born in the Antarctic. His father was the head of the Argentinean scientific group. Since then, children have been born on the ice continent repeatedly, but it was Emilio who was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the first native inhabitant of the Antarctic.
Lack of a specific time zone
Due to the fact that the continent is mostly uninhabited, they did not officially divide it into time zones. That is why research bases for measuring time use the time zone of the state they represent, or use the local time of the countries located at the least distance from the bases.
