Journey to the end of the earth

Journey To The End Of The Earth

Author: Tishani Doshi

ANTARCTICA

13.09 degree north of equator

Russian research vessel –

Akademik Shokalskiy

AKADEMIK SHOKALSKIY

They had been travelling over 100

hours in combination of a car, an aero plane and a ship.

ANTARCTICA

Antarctic’s expansive white

landscape & uninterrupted blue horizon

ANTARCTICA-INDIAAntarctica India

Fauna Of Antarctica

Leopard Seals

Weddell Seals

Southern Elephant Seals

Toothed Whales:

Adelie PenguinsEmperor Penguins

Chinstrap PenguinsBlue Whale

Flora Of Antarctica

Simple plants like algae, mosses,

liverworts, lichens and microscopic fungi can survive

and grow in Antarctica

Phytoplankton

A varied group of tiny free floating plants. In

spring and early summer their numbers

increase rapidly, producing "blooms" like a think pea soup which can cover thousand of square kilometers of

the ocean

Phytoplankton in Antarctic food web

Larger phytoplankton, like diatoms. Diatoms are the preferred

food of krill, which are in turn eaten by many other animals

in this food web

650 million years ago, a giant

multipart southern supercontinent –

GODWANA existed

PART OF HISTORYGONDWANA

Separation Of Gondwana

The Gondwanan landmass started to disperse about 165 million years

ago

Extinction Of Dinosaurs

The dinosaurs were wiped out

and the mammals got

under way

Separation Into Countries

Landmass was forced to separate into

countries, shaping the globe as we know

it today

Cordilleran folds

Cordilleran folds are formed by system or

group of parallel mountain ranges together with the

intervening plateaus and other features.

Pre Cambrian Granite Shields

These are the granite sheets which are

formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, until the start of

the Cambrian approximately 540 million years ago

(mya)

Formation Of Himalayas

India Pushing northwards, jamming against Asia to form

Himalayas

Drifting of South America

South America drifting off to join North

America, opening up the DRAKE PASSAGE to create circumpolar

current

Drake Passage

The Drake Passage is the body of water

between the southern tip of 

South America at Cape Horn, Chile and

the South Shetland Islands

 of Antarctica

Circumpolar Current

The Antarctic Circumpolar

Current (ACC) is an ocean current

 that flows clockwise from

west to east around Antarctica.

Ping-Pong Ball

It’s like walking into a giant

Ping-Pong ball devoid of any

human markers - no trees, billboards,buildings.

Midge

The midge is a tiny two-winged fly that

resembles a mosquito.

Mites

Mite is insect-like organisms, which bite or cause irritation to

humans.

Blue WhalesThe blue whale is a

marine mammal belonging to the

suborder of baleen whales .

AvalancheAn avalanche is a

sudden, drastic flow of snow down a slope,

occurring when either natural triggers, such as loading from new snow

or rain, or artificial triggers, such as snowmobilers, explosives or

backcountry skiers, overload the snowpack

CalvingCalving is the sudden

release and breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg, ice front, ice shelf, or 

crevasse

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