Antarctica

You have a variety of resources available to you when researching Antarctica.  Don't forget to use the print media in the Library as well.  We have copies of Dangerous Creatures which includes information on the Polar habitats and wildlife there.  You can also source Encarta 2003 and Explorapedia - the World of Nature.

Antarctica websites

• Classroom Antartcia
• Auroraexpeditions - Plan your own journey to Antarctica
• Australian Antarctic Division
• Antarctic fact sheets
• Antarctic almanac
• Lonely Planet guide to Antarctica
• Zoom School Antartica - great fun for kids
• Antarctic jokes
• South Pole
• A fantastic poem about Antarctica with animated gifs

Online webquests

• Antarctica webquest for Stage 2 students.  Very managable.
• CAP Research Module - A Month in Antarctica

Explorers

You could use Encarta 2003 to research these people as well as these web pages.  Keep in mind that some of these web pages may contain personal opinion and not verified fact.

• Roald Amundsen
• Robert F Scott
• Ernest Shackleton
• Douglas Mawson
• Enchanted Learning Antarctic explorers

Life at Antarctic bases

• What's it like to live at an Antarctic Station?

Webcams

• Australian Antarctic webcams

Image of Antarctica

• dapper.com images
• Gulf of Maine aquarium images
• Jonathon Chester's extreme images
• NASA meteorological images of Antarctica
• Spectatcular scenery in Antarctica