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Exploring Antarctica: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz explores various aspects of Antarctica, including its geography, wildlife, historical significance, and cultural references, particularly through the lens of the movie Antarctica.

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1 What does the following picture show?  Designed by Graham Bartram, this is the most popular unofficial flag of Antarctica, symbolizing the continent's neutrality.   The snow surface at Dome C Station is typical of most of the continent's surface.   Survey route   Antarctic postal services.

2 ________ were common in the seas around Antarctica, and dinosaurs were also present, though only three Antarctic dinosaur genera (Cryolophosaurus and Glacialisaurus, from the Hanson Formation,[26] and Antarctopelta) have been described to date.

3 What role did Yiftach Mizrahi play in the movie Antarctica?

4 Who played Eitan in the movie Antarctica?

5 What does the following picture show?  Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island.   Adelie Penguin chicks in Antarctica, with MS Explorer and an iceberg in the background.   Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded due to CFCs accumulation (September 2006).   Emperor Penguins in Ross Sea, Antarctica.

6 Who played Omer in the movie Antarctica?

7 It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the ________.

8 What does the following picture show?  Antarctic meteorite, named ALH84001, from Mars.   Adelie Penguin chicks in Antarctica, with MS Explorer and an iceberg in the background.   Elevation colored by relief height   Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded due to CFCs accumulation (September 2006).

9 Who played Miki in the movie Antarctica?

10 The coastline measures 17,968 km (11,165 mi) and is mostly characterized by ________ formations, as the following table shows:

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Japanese icebreaker SĹŤya (pictured) survived a torpedoing by the USS Greenling in 1943 and rescued the Sakhalin Huskies Taro and Jiro from Antarctica in 1958.
  • the extinct Pliocene dolphin Australodelphis from the Vestfold Hills of Antarctica has been described as an example of convergent evolution with whales.
  • the astronomical observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is named after physicist Martin A. Pomerantz.
  • one of the peaks in Antarctica is called The Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship.
  • although Ernest Wild developed scurvy during the Ross Sea Party Antarctic expedition, and lost part of a toe and part of an ear to frostbite, he survived - but died of typhoid the next year in Malta.
  • during its operational history 1874–1926 the Argentine Corvette Uruguay (pictured) was a gunboat, school ship, expedition support ship, and Antarctic rescue vessel, and is now a museum ship in Buenos Aires.
  • the Swedish-American entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad who led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966, for many years operated his own vessel, the MS Lindblad Explorer (pictured), in the region.
  • the Indian Antarctic Program has two permanent bases in Antarctica and has sent 27 expeditions to the continent since 1981.
  • the English explorer and geologist Sir Vivian Fuchs led the first successful overland expedition across Antarctica in 1958—a journey of 2,158 miles (3,453 km).
  • the first dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica was unearthed in 1986 from the Santa Marta Formation.
  • the Trinity Church is a permanent building in Antarctica and the most southern church in the world.
  • the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) found evidence that suggests a portion of Antarctica was once joined to southern Africa.
  • the Mount Kirkpatrick Formation is the only major dinosaur-bearing rock formation in Antarctica.
  • after colonizing Antarctica, the Lobodontine seals rapidly diversified to include the only seal that feeds primarily on krill and the only seal that feeds primarily on the krill-eating seals.
  • Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island enabled the first radio link to Antarctica.
  • Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy successfully amputated Perce Blackborrow's gangrenous toes while stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
  • BĂĄrd Mikkelsen, chief executive officer of Widerøe, the Ulstein Group and Statkraft, has skydived over Antarctica.
  • ATIC, a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica, recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles.
  • ANDRILL is a scientific drilling project in Antarctica to gather information about global warming over the last 65 million years.
  • NASA terraforming expert Christopher McKay has explored the Gobi Desert, Siberia and Antarctica to study extremophilic life forms.
  • Norway was the last country with a territorial claim of Antarctica to not operate an all-year research station, until the 2005 opening of Troll (pictured) and Troll Airfield.
  • Beaufort Island in Antarctica's Ross Sea was named for Sir Francis Beaufort in 1841.
  • France Antarctique, a short-lived French colony, was not in Antarctica but in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Ridge A in Antarctica has been identified as the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth.
  • Viedma Glacier (pictured) is part of the huge Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest expanse of continental ice after Greenland and Antarctica.
  • Polar dinosaurs could have walked to Australia, because during the early Cretaceous the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica.
  • New South Greenland was a phantom island near Antarctica, described in 1832 by Benjamin Morrell, who was called "the biggest liar in the Southern Ocean".
  • infragravity waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America propagate across the oceans and contribute to the breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  • Antarctica's Lemaire Channel is such a popular tourist destination that it's nicknamed Kodak Gap.
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