My slide show BY MARLEY VARELA

ICE SHEETS If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the world oceans would rise by 60 to 65 meters, (200 – 210 feet) – everywhere.

Top view map of Antarctica

Travelling through Antarctica... It is well known that the risks of travelling through the Antarctic ice sheets is of high risk there for, ships that intend on doing so, are well equipped and do extensive planning and research.

WEIGHT OF ICE SHEETS... Antarctica is pushed into the Earth by the weight of it’s ice sheets. If they melted, it would “spring back” about 500m, (1625 ft). It would do this very slowly taking about years to do so.

ANTARCTICA & SPACE!!!!! Antarctica is the best place in the world for scientists to find meteorites. Dark meteorites show up against the white expanse of ice and snow which don’t get covered by vegetation.

DRY VALLEYS The cold and dry conditions in the “Dry Valleys” region of Antarctica are so close to those on Mars that NASA did testing there for the Viking mission which was to obtain high resolution images of the Martian surface.

ANTARCTICA’S WILDLIFE Antarctica’s wildlife has evolved to adapt to extreme cold conditions using it’s own body fat to keep warm and survive long periods without food.

CLIMATE CHANGE!!!! It is believed by some scientists that climate change and the way modern man is currently living, by means of pollution, that we are to blame for the ice sheets melting rapidly.

WET WEATHER IN ANTARCTICA... Scientific studies have proven that it has not rained in the “Dry Valleys” for at least two million years.