Antarctic Geography For Kids and Teens

• Amundsen-Scott Station Virtual Tour  - Provides text and images to make up a virtual tour of the Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole.
• Antarctic History  - Includes early exploration, seal hunters, heroic age, mechanized age, territorial claims, and population.
• Antarctic Research Trust  - Conducts and supports scientific research on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic animals to provide baseline data for adequate conservation measures.
• Antarctica: The Continent of Wonder  - Presents facts about the region; its land, ice, life, climate, and people. Also includes current updates about the area.
• Australian Antarctic Division  - Provides details on the studies about the Antarctic's geography and geology. Also includes illustrations and photos.
• British Antarctic Survey  - Undertakes scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent.
• Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica  - Contains an overview about the sun, wind, and temperature in the South Pole. Presents a photo of the earth coming from a satellite.
• Classroom Antarctica  - Contains a comprehensive scheme of work teaching students about Antarctic history, life, work, nature and stewardship, with activities and discussion ideas.
• Cool Antarctica  - Covers information about the region’s climate, wildlife, and plants. Also contains details on other habitats.
• Discovering Antarctica  - Resource provided by the British Antarctic Survey; includes extensive interactive activities, downloadable worksheets, video clips and teaching ideas.
• Frozen Fans  - Details the Antarctic region; its climate, land, ozone, animals, and timeline.
• National Geographic: Antarctica  - Presents a photo of an iceberg from the waters of the region. Provides details about the team, its mission, the ship, and the place.
• National Geographic: Frozen Under  - Provides an account of Rick Aster and his team’s journey to the Antarctic. Features photos of the area.
• Nature - Antarctic: The End of the Earth  - Contains informatio about the land of ice and massive icebergs. Also features places of extreme weather climates.
• Nova Online: Warnings from the Ice  - Presents an article about nature’s time machine. Includes an almanac of the Antarctic.
• Nova: Mountain of Ice  - Articles include the life cycle of a glacier and the expedition’s story. Discusses the pros and cons if and when the ice melts in the Polar Regions.
• Passport to Antarctica  - Contains articles and features on Antarctic geogaraphy, history and wildlife, plus information on research being carried out there.
• Pole Souls  - Narrates life at the south pole dome as seen, in 1977, by a group of 21 scientists - before many modern inventions made life there much eaiser and more pleasant.
• Secrets of the Ice  - Explains the formation of ice in the Antarctic. Includes insights on drilling ice cores.
• South Pole Live Camera  - Presents a live view and an archived view of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, as well as time lapse sequences.
• Sunrise at the South Pole  - Accounts on September 23, 1999 sunrise at the Arctic regions. Provides information on the climate changes in the area.
• Zoom School: Antarctic  - Contains a satellite feed on the region and presents a map and geographical details about the area.