The wild brutality and immense beauty of Antarctica is the only one in this planet. The many wars of man has never bloodied this land. However, the immense cold of this place, which is much larger than what you get after combining America and Europe, is almost germ free thanks to the cold and humans have suffered more violent deaths than natural forms of demise. This white continent today has also achieved the title of being a contrast ridden land, fusing people of extremely different and antagonistic political faiths to create a concert of harmony, not worried about the risk of their blood freezing in seconds, for they are amazingly able to keep warm while staying 100 below zero temperatures.
It is also interesting to note that Antarctica has become known to never allow any weight gain among people of the heartiest appetites, even as they ingest at least four meals or more a day thanks to the intense cold, eating away the calories a lot faster than any diet crazes people get obsessed with. There is, however, a rare affliction called as the big eye, which does not enable people to sleep during the extremely bright summer season, specifically thanks to the 3 am sunshine, thus creating a mass insomnia affliction.
The austerest conservation laws are only found in the White Continent. With very strict policies, human excrement is burned and urination has to be in sealed barrels among the scientific parties on the field. If centuries ago, whalers and killers can hunt endlessly, today we see special licenses being needed first. For scientific studies involving the evolution of mesozoic and cenozoic depositional basins of the northern Antarctic Peninsula and the South Orkney Islands, the ecological adaptation of pygoscelid penguins, and even the origin of ice crystals in polar precipitations, the Americans spend up to 45 million dollars through the National Science Foundation.
During the busy summer season from November until mid February, women populate several of the various research stations, and at Vostok near the geomagnetic pole, Russian women are increasing in numbers. But as yet no female navy personnel have spent the winter on the continent, and the Navy brass swears none will. But the Pentagon is being pressured to add women in the roster of wintering-over parties in McMurdo and also at the area 728 miles farther south, the South Pole.
The senior naval officer will consent to the idea but there is something they should discuss first. Before we green light women for wintering over duties, tell us first how exactly will the wives of the men coming down here react, upon learning how their spouses will spend the longest night on Earth, with another woman, perhaps?
The Antarctic proves to be much different from the Arctic which boasts of caribou herds, teeming bird life, and vast population of furred animals as the Antarctic only has the furred seals and it is rare that these ones truly are residents. Without any flyable wings or singing capability, penguins hold the biggest bird population along with the amazing ability to lay eggs and hatch these during wintertime, at the most freezing temperatures even.
Yet off the shores of this desolate world exists the richest marine life in the world. It was these seas saturated with whales and seals that brought the first explorers to the Antarctic. The sights were not what draw them in. Oil from whales and skin of seals is what drove them here and what caused New England to become very wealthy. And one of them was 22 year old Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a sealer captain who was awarded credit by some after he discovered back in 1920, what we now know as the Antarctic Peninsula, named after him.
These very deep waters are home to a billion and a half metric tons of four inch crustacean species, krill, which according to experts post the largest protein supply throughout the entire world. It has been established by experts that the protein that can be harvested at the bottom of these four season along with others washing the continental shelf of the fisheries, are way more compared to what the other trawlers all over the world fishing in different seas are capable of harvesting.
The immense krill population, according to most ichthyologists, is due to the greed and the butchery of the many sealers and whalers today. As the huge baleen whales and krill-eating seals being slaughtered merciless, krill species have been growing by the billions as their mega predators are getting extinct.
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