Antarctica is the only continent on Earth without a native human population. Since no country owns Antarctica, no visa is required to travel there. If you are a citizen of a country that is a signatory of the Antarctic Treaty, you do need to get permission to travel to Antarctica.

Shackleton was a cautious leader and a man who would never ask his men to do anything he would not do himself. He was also good at improvisation, a man not afraid to throw away the rulebook or abandon plans if they were not working.

• Sir Ernest Shackleton. Perhaps the most famous polar explorer, British-Irish Shackleton led two significant Antarctic expeditions, between 1907 and 1909, as well as 1914 to 1917.
• Roald Amundsen.
• Robert Falcon Scott.
• Shirase Nobu.
• Sir Edgeworth David.
• Sir Edmund Hillary.
• Sir Douglas Mawson.
• Sir James Clark Ross.

Roald Amundsen

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

The name Antarctica is the romanised version of the Greek compound word ἀνταρκτική (antarktiké), feminine of ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), meaning “opposite to the Arctic”, “opposite to the north”. Aristotle wrote in his book Meteorology about an Antarctic region in c. 350 BC.

There are no countries in Antarctica, although seven nations claim different parts of it: New Zealand, Australia, France, Norway, the United Kingdom, Chile, and Argentina. The Antarctic also includes island territories within the Antarctic Convergence.

So perhaps it won’t come as a surprise to hear that Antarctica is also the only continent without an indigenous human population. Although there are no native Antarcticans and no permanent residents or citizens of Antarctica, many people do live in Antarctica each year.

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Unknown. It may matter where in Antarctica you are born, but technically, all Antarctic territorial claims are held in abeyance by the Antarctic treaty. Generally, a child born abroad to married citizens/subjects automatically gains the status of it’s parents.

15/ Does Antarctica have electricity? Yes it does. Usually provided by diesel powered generators at each base, but increasingly stations are installing wind turbines to generate supplementary electricity.

Antarctica has no permanent residents. At least 11 children have been born in Antarctica. The first was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on 7 January 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.

There are over 36,000 McDonald’s locations all over the planet, and the chain is on every continent except Antarctica.

Polar bears live in the Arctic, but not Antarctica. Down south in Antarctica you’ll find penguins, seals, whales and all kinds of seabirds, but never polar bears. Even though the north and south polar regions both have lots of snow and ice, polar bears stick to the north. Polar bears don’t live in Antarctica.

The Short Answer: Both the Arctic (North Pole) and the Antarctic (South Pole) are cold because they don’t get any direct sunlight. However, the South Pole is a lot colder than the North Pole.

When other food is unavailable, polar bears will eat just about any animal they can get, including reindeer, small rodents, seabirds, waterfowl, fish, eggs, vegetation (including kelp), berries, and human garbage.

Bears. Polar bears, particularly young and undernourished ones will hunt people for food. Truly man-eating bear attacks are uncommon, but are known to occur when the animals are diseased or natural prey is scarce, often leading them to attack and eat anything they are able to kill.

4) Polar bears are cannibals. Polar bear males sometimes kill and eat young of their own species.

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It might come as a surprise that polar bears rarely drink water. Polar bears get their water from the chemical reaction that breaks down fat. This is why a polar bear’s diet is high in fat but low in protein. For example, when they hunt seals, polar bears will eat the blubber, but leave the rest behind for scavengers.

Probably not hard-boiled or scrambled, but black bears will eat bird eggs. As far as black bears go, Western Wildlife makes a point to say that it’s rare for them to really turn down anything. If it’s technically food, and it’s available, they’ll likely dig right in.

Polar bears do not hunt arctic foxes in a way they hunt seals. It is just that bear’s opportunistic nature seems to dominate her choice to eat just about any animal no matter how insignificant it appears to be. Besides, like polar bears arctic foxes are also scavengers.

Yes, wolves eat foxes. One relative to foxes (Canis) that eat foxes are wolves, they are spectacular creatures but also vicious, they have been known to hunt and kill foxes. Even though they share the same species, Canidae (canine) wolves are aggressive apex hunters who will eat when they are hungry.

A fox would eat a deer if it was already dead, however, as a predator of deer, no. A fox simply isn’t big enough to take down something as large as a deer. Foxes tend to go after smaller mammals like mice, rats, birds of all types.

Foxes prey on squirrels, birds, chipmunks and other animals that are only active by day, so they may simply be looking for a meal at that time.