Module 1 Deep SouthPeriod 1Reading And Vocabulary (1)1
The first person to land on Antarctica was British2
France was one of the first countries to sign the Antarctic Treaty★ Paragraph 11
With annual rainfall close to zero, Antarctica is technically a desert
A high mountain range, the Trans-Antarctic range, runs from east to west, cutting the continent in two
be in a frozen state 4
98% of the surface is covered permanently in the ice cap
In some places it reaches a depth of five kilometers
Strong winds driven by gravity blow from the pole to the coastline
It is difficult to imagine a more inhospitable place
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adapt to its extreme conditions2
Some forms of algae have adapted to grow on ice
★ Paragraph 31
Gases and minerals, in the form of volcanic dust trapped