Spicy facts about Antarctica- the confusing continent

 How did continents formed?

4.5 Billion years ago, continents of Earth were once joined together in the form of a supercontinent named as Pangea. Movements of plates or plate tectonics causes the supercontinent to partitioned into 7 continents on the basis of water part between the two blocks of land mass but there is an exception of Europe and Asia, there is no water part between the Europe and Asia. 

 

How was Antarctica discovered?

Antarctica was discovered later after the rest of continents because it is isolated place which was out of sight of human civilization. It is formed millions of years ago but was discovered on January 1820, it is so mysterious and ancient land that it was once a warm region with a rainforest and civilization which was later transformed into cold dry region covered with a 98% of ice sheet which is 1.0 mile(1.6 km) thick after the Ice age.

Antarctica is the 5th largest continent which is twice the size of Australia, bigger than whole of Europe. It is the driest continent on our planet.

    

Amazing facts about Antarctica:

1- Antarctica doesn't belong to anyone, no single country could own this continent. 

2- There is no government in Antarctica, it is governed by a group of nations.

3- It does not have an official flag of its own.

4-There are no cities on Antarctic continent and have no capital of it.

5- There are 20 airports in Antarctica but not public-access airports and have no landing facilities.

6- Only stations existed there.

7- Antarctica is not a homeland for any human, a person can stay for 3-6 months, although some stays for as long as 15 months in terms of contract.

8- NASA tested robots in Antarctic as the desert condition of it is like the conditions on Mars, these tested robots later landed on Mars.

9- Blood falls is the mysterious Glacier in Antarctic which is notorious for being some kind of tele-portal to some other world, blood falls contains rich amount of Iron when exposed to air it turned into red looks like the blood is coming from the Glacier.

10- Sun rises once in a year because Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to the path of its orbit around sun, for six months in a year sun neither rises over one pole nor sets over other pole that means south pole experiences 6 months of sunrise while the north pole experiences 6 months of sunsets.

11- No reptiles could survive there, it is a continent without reptiles and it is place for worms.

12- There is a diamond dust which is made up of tin flakes of glass and crystal which on reflection gives out an artificial look of glittery dust or diamond dust.

13- It has a buried mountain range known as Gamburtsev Mountain range( Also referred as a Ghost mountain range), which lie buried beneath as much as 3 km of ice. 

14- Antarctica is a good place for building Nuclear power plants but it is illegal although it has enough space and have no risk of life danger in case of accident.

15- If you are standing at the magnetic south pole, then everywhere is north for you.