Simulation

Fact-Finding Team
Location of Antarctica

The mission of your group is to

Find the answers to the questions listed below. You may use books, periodical resources, the Internet or the Antarctica: 90 Degrees South video titled Antarctica Under Construction about the geology and geography of the continent.
Make a presentation of your findings to the class. You may use whatever media you choose for your presentation. Think about how YOU learn best.
Make a handout of the important findings of your group to distribute to the rest of the class.Be sure to cite your sources.

Questions -- Location

Where would you be if everywhere you look is north?
What is the latitude of the South Pole?
What is the difference between the magnetic and geographic South Poles?
Which pole, geographic or magnetic, were explorers like Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton trying to reach?

Resources

Antarctica
http://aadc-gisweb.antdiv.gov.au/gis/antarctica/
live_antarctica.htm

Australian Atlantic Data Centre
http://www-aadc.aad.gov.au/default.asp

View from 35792 km above 88 40' S and 41 42" E
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?imgsize=320&opt
=-l&lat=-88.6667&ns=North&lon=41.375&ew=
West&alt=35792&img=learth.evif

Maps Home Page
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/
core/linksa/maptop.html

Geographic Names Information System
http://geonames.usgs.gov/antform.html

Name That Place
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/southpole.edu/latlong.html

Virtual Tour--The Poles
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/pole/poles/

Antarctica
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/aq.html

Antarctica Regions
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/islands_oceans_poles/
antarctic_region_pol_95.jpg

Fact-Finding Team Location of Antarctica

The mission of your group is to

Questions -- Location

Resources

Fact-Finding Team
Location of Antarctica