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Excursions Map Patagonia Austral |
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ANTARTICA
There is not in the world such an impressive place as the Antarctica. This continent is totally submerged by the ice the one that not single mark its topography but rather it has also influenced its evolution.
Covering an area of around 14.000.000 km2, The Antarctica is the second smaller continent after Australia. It is so covered with mountains that it is on the average the highest in the seven continents, it is also also the more scented, cold and the less populated area of the whole planet.
The layer of ice that almost covers the whole containing Antarctic represents the biggest reservation in water of the planet containing around 90% of the ice of the world and 68% of its water. Queerly the precipitations in the Antarctica are very low, the annual average of rain is of alone 5mm that it makes of this continent the biggest desert in the world.
Geographically, the Antarctica includes the continent in if and the adjacent islands. In accordance with the Antartic Treaty signed in 1959, the antarctic jurisdiction is applied to the contained region among the parallel of latitude 90 and the South Pole.
The search of the Antarctica was the last great adventure of the time of the explorations of the globe. It is an epic history that extends along several centuries, from the notion of the Incognito Terra of the old ones until the first avistamientos of the continent in 1820.
Whales Baleen, Orcas, Seals of Weddel, Focas Antarticas and Penguins compose the fauna that feeds of the rich ones you dilute Antarctica.
This continent was discovered in first instance by hunters of whales in search of benefits, later on it was rediscovered for big scanners like: Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson, Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott among others.
The landscape, the fauna and the marine life are the main attractions for the tourist. This place is one of the few ones in the world that virgin remains, for constitutes it an important reservation of the Biosphere
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