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The British captain James Cook became the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle in 1773.
The Antarctic treaty established that the Antarctic must only be used for peaceful intentions.
In 1959, the Antarctic treaty was signed by 12 nations.
The surface of the Antarctica measures 14 million kilometers which is 1.7 times the size of Australia, 1.4 times the size of the USA and 1.3 times bigger than Europe.
The Antarctic represents nearly one tenth of the earth’s surface.
The Antarctic doesn´t have any permanent residents and there is no native population.  In summer it receives around 25,000 tourists.
The Antarctic is the Worlds fresh water reserve.  If all the ice in the Antarctic melted the seas would increase by 60 meters.
The existence of the Antarctic was set out by the Greeks in 400 BC, as a place opposite to the Arctic.
The Norwegian Ronald Amundsen, in 1911 walked to the South Pole.
The Antarctic is the coldest, highest and most inhospitable continent of the Earth.
The frozen surface of the Antarctic has 29 million kilometers of ice and represents 90% of all the ice in the planet and between 60 to 70% of all the pure water of the World.
Only 0.4% of the Antarctic is not covered with ice.
In 1928 the Australian pilot Hubert Wilkins became the first person to fly over the Antarctic.
Mount Erebus, on the island of Ross is an active volcano in the Antarctic continent.
The Antarctic treaty established that the Antarctic must only be used for peaceful intentions.
In the Antarctic it is prohibited to eliminate radioactive remains and to detonate nuclear explosives.
The white surface of the Antarctic sends back to the atmosphere approximately 40% of solar radiation.
From November to February, the sun does not go down.  When April arrives there is no dawn and no sun until September.
The first incursion of the Antarctic waters was in 1675 by the English merchant Antonio de la Roche.
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