The Secrets of Everlasting Ice

The high level of research done in this area makes contrast with the inhospitable surrounding scenery.

Atarctica was the last continent to be discovered. Once, millions of years ago, this land used to be joined to present America, New Zealand, Africa, India and Australia. There are vestiges of the presence of animal and plant life before the big significant climate changes that turned it into an inhospitable and barren land took place. It was then that large masses of water separated the continents and gave origin to the oceans. This was the starting point for this vast extension of frozen land.

History gives account of the arrival of a Spanish explorer in 1603, after several similar attempts by other intrepid sailors. There is certainty that seal hunters from southern Chile and Argentina visited this place for centuries.

Once the International Geo Physic Year was celebrated in 1957, Antarctica's Research Special Committee was created. The main purpose of this non-political institution made up by several countries was to coordinate investigation activities. Therefore, every southern summer, the Antarctic continent becomes an international study site where everything that happens on the planet is observed.

This is how theories about the geological past of planet Earth and the solar system emerged. Researchers have managed to figure out details about the Earth's magnetism, the atmosphere and the constant deterioration of the ozone layer.

In addition, research carried out in the late twentieth century by Japanese explorers about meteorites have been studied. Other topics include the constant analysis of the behavior of glaciers and some conclusion about alien life. Therefore, the Antarctic continent is considered as a valuable library where the past, the present and the future may be read.

There is no doubt that this place is a large-scale innovative laboratory that provides answers to the great events that take place in our world.