HI I AM SASHA AND I AM GOING TO ANTARCTICA

I am so happy that I get to go to Antarctica.

I have a pug named Puffy and a golden retriever named Fluffy.

When I trained my dog at Petco!

 

During the summer I go to Acadia National Park with my family ad we hike mountains.

In 2015, I went to the Galápagos’ islands

and now I am going to Antarctica!

 

First, we’ll be taking a plane from Maine, to New York. After a big layover, we’re going to Ushuaia, Argentina. Here’s some facts about it:

 

• • It was founded by the ONA about 10,000 years ago.
  • The British Embassy first named the land Ushuaia.
  • The record low tempature is -6F.
  • The record high tempature is 85F.
  • There are an average of 209 cloudy days a year.
  • The main economic activities are fishing, natural gas and oil extraction, sheep farming and ecotourism.
  • There is an “END OF THE WORLD” train which leads to the city’s national park.
  • Ushuaia only has two TV channels.
  • The Hospital Gobernador Ernesto M. Campos once treated Bruno Mars.It’s the southern most city in the world.

After, we’re going to go to Toress De Pains National Park.

• It’s the largest and most visited park in Chile.
• There have been 3 fires on the land.
• The lowest tempature in the summer was 16F.
• In 2014, Scientists uncovered 46 ancient fossils.
• The National Park is the only known home to Empetrum rubrum.
• It is also home to the endangered Chilean Huemul
• A certified guide is required to access some parts of the park. These arrangements need to be made before entering the park.
• The National Park greets over 140000 visitors a year.
• You can walk within 5 feet of wildlife.
• A person was struck by lightning there 3 times, and survived.

Finally, we go to the highlight of the trip ~ Antarctica.

1. The first confirmed sighting of the continent was in 1820.

2. Explorers first reached the South Pole in 1911.

3. Because Antarctica lies in the southern hemisphere, seasons there are the opposite of seasons in the north — summer runs from October to February and winter covers the remainder of the year.

4. Antarctica is the coldest continent; temperatures in the winter can drop below –73°C (-100°F).

5. The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth was at Russia’s Vostok Station in Antarctica: -89.2°C (-128.6°F) on 21st July, 1983.

6. Antarctica is the driest continent; it is almost entirely desert. Very little snow or rain falls on the continent, but because it is so cold, the small amount of precipitation that does fall does not melt.

7. The ice can be more than 4 km thick in some places. This ice flows?off the continent and creates floating ice shelves over the ocean; these shelves break up and create icebergs. If Antarctica’s ice sheets melted, the world’s oceans would rise by 60-65 meters.

8. About 70% of Earth’s fresh water is in the Antarctic ice cap.

9. There are no countries in Antarctica; the continent is governed by an international treaty (the Antarctic Treaty).

10. There are no permanent residents. But up to 1,000 people may be wintering over at various research stations.

 

After we are going to the highlight of the trip, Antarctica.