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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