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A Journey To The End Of The Earth

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What is Antarctica and how is it called the end of the world?

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Describe Gondwana and how did the globe acquire the present shape.

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Describe author’s journey to the Antarctica.

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Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world. The author boards a Russian vessel–the Akademik Shokal–skiy from Madras and he crosses nine time zones and six check points, three bodies of water and many ecospheres. There is no human habitation except absolute silence and ice sheets. There is 24 hours southern summer light. Six hundred and fifty million years ago, it was a giant supercontinent, Gondwana that centred around present day Antarctica. For 500 million years, Gondwana flourished. Then the landmass could not remain together and separated like India and North America.

Antarctica is the only place in the world which has never sustained a human population. In this respect it is original. It holds half million years old carbon records embedded in its layers of ice. In order to understand the past, present and future of the earth, one should visit Antarctica. Antarctica has simple eco-system. There is lack of biodiversity. It is the perfect place to study how changes in environment can have big repercussions. It is called the end of the earth because no human life exists on it except the scientist to go for research purposes.

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Some More Questions From A Journey To The End Of The Earth Chapter

What do you learn about the history of the earth by reading “Journey to the End of the Earth?”

In a short span of 12 thousand years man has managed to create a nucleus on this earth. How?

What is Gondwana? What happened to it 150 million years ago?

Why is Antarctica frigid and desolate at the bottom of the world?

What can we see or visualise on sub-continent Antarctica?

What is the most hotly debated topic in our time? What questions does it raise and what is its importance?

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How is Antarctica a crucial element in the debate on climate change?

How does one lose all earthly sense of perspective and time in Antarctica?

We need not go any where in order to study the present, past and future of the earth except Antartica. Give a reasoned reply.

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Why is Antarctica the place to go to if we want to study the earth’s past, present and future?

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How can a visit to the Antarctica be an enlightening experience?

What does the author say about the life of human civilizations?

What do you know about Phytoplanktons?

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Why is a visit to Antarctica important to realise the effect of global warming?

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