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My Scholarship entry - JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH

ANTARCTICA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [167] | View Larger Image

WELCOME TO THE WHITE CONTINENT - This is a scene one can gaze upon endlessly with no intention of looking away. 'Pancake' ice are the telltale signs of the oncoming winter as the sea freezes up, and the mounds of ice make everywhere the eye can see picture perfect in this magnificent place. Truly one for the books, Antarctica is out of this world with its pristine environment to the extensive wildlife. Governed by the Antarctic Treaty System established in 1959, Antarctica is out of bounds for any military activity, mining or drilling which truly makes it a sole part of Mother Nature herself.

IN TO THE WILDERNESS WE GO -

Out of the gloom of the fog, looms The Last Great Wilderness as our first sighting on the Antarctic voyage. Comprised of jagged, unforgiving rocks capped off with layer upon layer of thick snow, the Ice Continent presents a harsh environment with raging dry winds with alarming, bone chilling temperatures. A 48 hour journey on the brutal, raging seas of The Drake Passage finally brings us to calm, pristine waters of the Antarctic.

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TROUBLE IN PARADISE -

The picture shows the world changing events in motion that is quite horrifying and spells doom for a lot of low lying countries of the world. Due to the rise in global warming, the ice caps on the jagged rocks melt away over time while exposing them in the process paving way to a meteoric rise in sea level. If such events continue, before we know it, The Last Great Wilderness would cease to be. Antarctica is home to 90% of the ice on Planet Earth which is 70% of all the world's water and if such quantities of water was expelled into the oceans of the world with the melting of this ice, we could be looking at as much as a 60m gargantuan sea level rise, drowning and removing any existence of low lying island nations.

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