Chapter 629: Antarctica (Page 1/1)

"Antarctica, located at the southern tip of the earth, is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and is bordered by the Belingsgau Sea, the Ross Sea, the Amundsen Sea and the Weddell Sea.

Antarctica is composed of continents, continental edge ice and islands, with a total area of 14.245 million square kilometers, of which the continental area is 12.393 million square kilometers, the continental edge ice area is 1.582 million square kilometers, and the island area is 76,000 square kilometers. The whole territory is a large plateau with an average altitude of 2,350 meters, which is the highest average altitude in the world.

The continent of Antarctica is almost entirely covered by glaciers, accounting for more than 80% of the modern ice cover area of Aqua Bluestar. The continental glacier extends from the center to the sea, forming a huge Ross ice barrier, and there are icebergs floating on the sea around it, with an ice cover area of about 2 million square kilometers, an average thickness of 2000~2500 meters, and a maximum thickness of 4800 meters.

Only 2% of the entire Antarctic continent is free of snow and ice, and plants and animals can survive. The climate is very cold, the extreme minimum temperature has reached -89.2 °C, the wind speed is generally 17~18 meters per second, and the maximum is more than 90 meters per second, which is the world's coldest land with the most storms and the strongest winds. The average annual precipitation on the continent is 55 mm, there is almost no precipitation near the pole, and the air is very dry, which is called the "white desert".

In the Antarctic Circle, there are continuous polar days in the warm season and continuous polar nights in the cold season, and there are gorgeous arc-shaped aurora lights. ”

When the nuclear-powered polar icebreaker Snow Dragon was about to arrive in the waters near Antarctica, every crew member was finally sent a relevant information about Antarctica, so that everyone could familiarize themselves with it first and be mentally prepared for the extremely cold and bad weather here.

Let the panda cub Xiao Tuanzi sit alone on the table, and without feeling distressed at all, he opened a canned luncheon meat that he had just snatched from the hands of those eagle people who didn't open his eyes yesterday, and the panda cub Xiaotuanzi, who was attracted by the fragrance of luncheon meat, unceremoniously buried his head in eating the black and white hairy head was about to be planted in the canned food box.

And Si Qingli and Sharp Brother Xu Haijian were sitting at the edge of the table, studying the relevant information about Antarctica that had just been sent.

Since Si Qingli and Brother Sharp are not the kind of people who are particularly good at communicating, although everyone has been on the same boat for a while, and the panda cub Xiaotuanzi has also played a lot of diplomatic roles, but the new friends who are really close to Si Qingli are still the only one who is Sharp Brother Xu Haijian, and the rest are floating clouds who come to the panda cub Xiaotuanzi's beauty.

"Antarctica is divided into two seasons every year, cold and warm every year, April ~ October is the cold season, and November ~ March is the warm season. Near the poles, the cold season is the polar night, when dazzling aurora often appears near the Antarctic Circle; The warm season is the opposite, it is a polar day, the sun is always oblique, and it is December, the warm season in Antarctica, which is prone to that kind of polar day.

If it's just the polar day, it's fine, but the trouble is the wonders of Antarctica that tend to appear during the warm season: "milky white skies".

The milky sky is a weather phenomenon in the polar regions and one of the natural wonders of Antarctica. It is formed by the interaction of cold air from the low temperatures of the polar regions. When sunlight hits the ice, it immediately reflects off the low-altitude clouds, which in turn scatter the light and reflect it onto the ice on the ground. This back-and-forth reflection sometimes produces a milky white light, creating a milky white sky with white fog. At this time, everything in the person's field of vision seems to be blended into the thick milky milk, and it is completely impossible to distinguish between the near and the far ground. When this phenomenon is severe, it can also cause dizziness and even loss of consciousness and death. The milky sky is one of the main threats to polar explorers, scientists, and polar vehicles. Scientific accidents caused by milky white skies are extremely common in the history of exploration and expedition in the Antarctic region, and they are also the cause of the highest fatality rate.

Although the milky white sky poses a danger to human activities in Antarctica, it can be avoided with targeted training and safety precautions in advance. Once encountered, take a detour to avoid it; People and vehicles in the wilderness should stay put, keep warm, and wait patiently for the milky white sky to disappear, or for rescuers to come to the rescue. ”

"Isn't this all nonsense, what are our boatloaders doing here? It's to be able to kill the dangerous alien hidden under the permafrost glacier in Antarctica, this is already the most elite unit on the entire water blue star, if we touch the milky white sky, who else can come to save us, no one will come at all, it's better for everyone to find a way to save themselves. ”

"Hopefully our luck will be a little better and we won't touch this milky sky.

According to the information, we will land on the mainland of Antarctica from the southern islands of Antarctica, and the good news is that more than 80% of the penguins in Antarctica live in the southern islands. ”

"Xu Haijian, I think it's best for us not to run into penguins, that's not necessarily a good thing.

You must know that the entire Aqua Blue Star, even the vast area of the sea and all kinds of marine life in the sea, have been contaminated by the T-Kesfra virus, and I don't think Antarctica will be a pure land.

If we see not a living colony of penguins, but a large colony of zombie penguins, I wonder if you will still think they are cute. ”

"Phew, Si Qingli, why is your heart so dark, you want to be sunny, think more about the good side of everything, think about it, the area of our ocean accounts for 70% of the area of the entire water blue star, so much seawater dilutes some zombie viruses, maybe these long-distance zombie viruses have not had a chance to come here near Antarctica."

"If we don't have an effective way to suppress the zombie virus, it will be sooner or later, I just habitually think about the worst outcome, then when I really face it, it will not be worse than I imagined."

"Si Qingli, if those cute penguins have really become zombie penguins as you said, you are a super big crow's mouth."

"Although I don't want to, but in fact I've been a crow's mouth many times, it's good to get used to it, anyway, let's be ready, just be prepared, if those cute penguins don't become zombie penguins, then of course I don't want to be this crow's mouth."

"Okay, we'll get off the ship in two hours, we've read the information about Antarctica, let's go down, I can't wait to see what kind of guy is that mysterious alien who turned our water blue star upside down......"

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