POLES APART

Antarctica is nearly twice the size of US and was coined to mean opposite to the arctic. Antarctica, 30 degrees colder than arctic. At the south pole nearly 10000 feet high, monthly mean temperatures run well below zero. At the American South Pole, winter temperature can fall below -100 degrees Farenheit, world recorded the lowest temperature of Antarctica were -127 degrees Farenheit in August 1960. Old rock layers shows that ”oppositeness” between north and south extends far back into the early chapters of earth history. Antarctica is the storehouse of 85 percent of total world supply of ice. The icecap is very thick, nearly 8000 feet and at one spot, the ice to be more than 13000 feet. And if this great volume of ice were to melt, the volume of the world oceans will increase.