ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA

ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA

The Antártida, the White Continent, captures us for its special ecosystem, to be a grandiose oasis of animal life and for the incredible mysterious and silent natural scenarios.

HIELOS

Ushuaia es la ciudad del mundo más cercana a la Antártida

ALBATROS

Venite to Argentina
Wonderful country

Location:

The Antártida has like center to the South Pole and its cost distan around 2500 km of the same one. It is low the I Circulate Polar Antarctic, except for the Península Antártica.

It is to 3600 km of Africa, 2250 km of Australia, 2200 km of New Zealand and to 1000 km of America

Ushuaia is considered as the nearest Argentinean city to the Antártida, forming part of the County of Earth of the Fire, Antártida and Islands of the South Atlantic

The Antártida Argentina extends from the meridian 25° until 74° of longitude west and the parallel one 60°. This Sector understands the Península Antártica or San Martin.

Their Surface is of 14 million square kilometers.

It is taken a bath to the east by the Sea of Weddel with costs similar to the Patagonia, to the west, for the Sea of Bellingshausen whose coastal profile is serpentine and with numerous islands and to the north for the Pasaje Drake (a sea open of almost 1000 km between Earth of the Fire and the Antártida) and the Sea of Scotia

Flora and Fauna

Although the flora is very poor or almost nonexistent, the abundance of salts minerals and of I oxygenate in the antarctic waters they favor the development of the plankton, formed by vegetable microorganisms and animals. Of particular biological and economic importance the krill, small extremely abundant crustacean in those aguas.

The much more developed fauna, it locates to different types of marine elephants, seals, orcas and still frank whale and blue whale, the biggest mammal in the world that you/they settle down in calm waters, nearer to the continent.
Muchas times they receive to the cruises and they accompany them during horas.

Most of the birds that we can comes in the Antártida they are penguins, exclusive of the south hemisphere, they don't fly,
their feathers are waterproof to the water and they have attractive social habits. Different seabird types, petreles,
cormoranes, and antarctic doves complete the inventory of birds of the region.

Ushuaia to which you arrives for air, for earth or for sea, from Buenos Aires, and other cities
es the starting point of most of the tourist trips to the Antártida,
a where you arrives by means of sailing ships or cruises freighted especially

Sailing ships: They are to carry out adventure trips and sailing ships are used that they have up to 16 m of long and they take 4 weeks
y can transport 4 or 5 people, with a minimum endowment of a captain and a seafaring cook.
Son sure trips whose itinerary depends on the climate. They make habitually numerous landings
para to visit scientific bases and colonies of animals

Cruises: numerous trips leave of Ushuaia every summer bound for the Península Antártica. The circuits are completed between 10 and 15 days, transporting between some dozens and hundred of people. During the trip they are carried out chats and conferences linked with the antarctic reality. They visit one another places of interest faunístico and scientific bases in the Península Antártica

Climate

To be almost completely covered with ice the White Continent impacts in a fundamental way in the climate of the Earth, through the winds, marine currents and temperature of the sea.

During the summer, January, February and March, the sun shines the whole day, while the whole winter, the sun remains invisible.

The climate is dry, with scarce rains and some snowfalls

The temperatures go from 0°C in the coast to 40°C under zero in the interior, there being you registered in 1983,
Minimum una -89,6°C

The denominated Dawn is the most attractive luminous phenomenon that takes place in the Antártida,
a root of the high ionization and magnetización of the atmosphere in that area

The season of tourism of the Antártida Argentina begins in November and it finishes in February of every year

The Antártida Argentina has 2500 inhabitants, 90% of ice glaciers and a reservation of sweet water of 70%.

Principle

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