101 Facts About Antarctica

greetings mother factors I'm Sam and today I have a cold but actually that's quite relevant really because I'm here to talk to you today about the world's bottom oh yes Antarctica one of my favorite places to never visit unless Jennifer Lawrence is there in which case I'm like totally my favorite holiday destination vacay y'all anyway but what crazy political ploy sent a pregnant woman to Antarctica why does one part of Antarctica appear to be bleeding profusely and if Antarctic is so great why does Santa live in the North Pole checkmate atheists two out of three discussions are gonna be answered so pull on a jumper but on another jumper and another jumper and another jumper as we dive into 101 facts about Antarctica bright brisk number one Antarctica is planet Earth's southernmost continent situated in the Antarctica region of the southern hemisphere almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle Antarctica is surrounded by the southern ocean and is home to the geographic South Pole oh and by the way it's really cold I mean that's like its main thing number two for the avoidance of doubt the word Antarctica refers specifically to the continent of Antarctica whereas Antarctic is used to describe the polar region that includes Antarctica as well as the various season islands of the southern ocean that surrounds it you got that got that good number three the continent of Antarctica sits atop the Antarctica plate yummy which extends out from the mainland mass and underneath the surrounding oceans yet Antarctica has it's very own tectonic plate all to itself bit greedy number four but Antarctica wasn't always the lone wolf it is today approximately 118 million years ago Antarctica Africa South America and the Indian Peninsula formed a supergroup I mean super continent named Gondwana sadly artistic differences in infighting caused Gondwana to breakup and the various land masses gradually drifted apart with poor old Antarctica ending up at its present location centered at 90 south latitude fans have Gondwana still hope for a reunion but frankly I don't see it happening number 5 before Antarctica slid away into relative geographical obscurity following the turbulent breakup of Gondwana the continent was covered in lush green forests and teeming with life including the dinosaurs remember those guys back then frozen Antarctica was wormers present-day California welcome everybody to the wild wild west number six in terms of human history there have been a variety of myths and speculation about the possible Terra Australis or southern land dating back to antiquity but for a long time many explorers wrongly assumed that there was no land masses more southern than the land down-and-out so gave me the name Australia rather than the far more southern continent of Antarctica bet everyone felt silly when they realized that clangor number seven sorry by the way the name Antar could literally means opposite of the Arctic pretty boring really antarctica lady has the worst luck that's like having an older brother named paul and your parents naming you not paul as my younger brother not sam will testify number eight as a result of being properly out the way antarctica was the last major region on earth to be discovered in fact antarctica wasn't even physically seen by humans until the year 1820 or a year that was when a Russian expedition led by Mikhail Lazarev and the hilarity named Fabian got Lee von Bellingshausen spotted the fimble ice shelf Antarctica remained largely neglected for the rest of the 19th century because of her being a hellish expanse of frozen nothingness number 9 the question of who first stepped foot on Antarctica is disputed some believe that the very first human to step foot on the continent of Antarctica was an American seal hunter by the name of John Davis all the way back on the 7th of February 1821 however this account is not accepted by all historians number 10 the very first substantiated an entirely undisputed landing on Antarctica came a halt 74 years later in 1895 when Norwegian explorer is Henrik bull and Carsten brought Griffin landed at Cape on dare having travelled to the frozen continent aboard a ship aptly named the Antarctic number 11 the first person to reach the South Pole was an elite explorer Roald Amundsen arriving on December 14 1911 beating the English explorer Robert Falcon Scott by over a month when the British team saw the flag has a Munson and left behind they turned around dejected and all died on the way back the tale as old as time how inspirational number 12 the first woman to visit Antarctica was Catherine Mickelson the wife of Norwegian when Captain glorious Mickelson who sent foot on the frozen continent in 1935 yeah girl power has sort of she just went to a place number 13 in 1996 a Norwegian man the name of burger Ashland became the first person to walk across Antarctica which by the way is a distance of three thousand kilometers all by himself and completely without support from teammates he was aided in his journey by utilizing kite power to drag himself along allowing him to make the trip in a speedy 64 days that's the power of drag as RuPaul would tell you number fourteen however between late 2011 and early 2012 English explorer and scientist Felicity Aston was the first person ever to journey across Antarctica powered only by human muscle she travelled a slightly shorter distance of 1744 kilometers but delay she did it without epoxy kites like the cheating Norwegian cheetah that remains nameless number 15 several years later in 2014 an American named Daniel Burton became the first person to travel from the Antarctic coast of the South Pole on a bicycle that's cheating cheating I tell you you're all cheating number 16 no country officially owns any part of Antarctica as it's governed over by the Antarctic Treaty as a condominium which is a political territory over which several states agreed to share Dominion 12 country signed the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 as of 2015 though there are now 53 States party to the treaty number 17 the Antarctic Treaty is a bit of a buzzkill as it prohibits mineral mining nuclear explosions nuclear waste disposal and military activity from being carried out in Antarctica just all the fun stuff really scraped off the docket number 18 it also supports scientific research protects the continents ecozone and guarantees that all those they've agreed to sign the treaty shall have free access to the continent including the right to carry out aerial observation number 19 though the Antarctic Treaty establishes Antarctica is a shared continent that doesn't seem to stop individual nations claiming huge parts of it as their own the largest claim comes surprisingly from Australia which claims a huge portion of East Antarctica covering approximately 5.8 million square kilometers number 23 some nations have attempted to bolster their Antarctic land crap since slightly bizarre ways in 1977 Argentina sent a pregnant mother to Antarctica to get birth in an effort to strengthen their claim to the place and on the 7th of January nineteen seven eight emilio Parma was born in Antarctica the first person to be born there and therefore probably the world's first native-born Antarctic in number 21 in response the rival nation of Chile began sending couples there - aiming to produce the first person not only born in Antarctica but conceived there - that is a level of into governmental pettiness of which I'm truly in awe plus it's cold over there how do they engineer for light number 22 Antarctica is roughly divided into two sections by the Transantarctic mountains across the continent close to the narrow strip of land between the Weddell and Ross sees West Antarctica includes Mary Birdland Ellsworth land and the Antarctic Peninsula whereas East Antarctica is made up of pretty much everything else and is much much bigger number 23 as mentioned Antarctica is home to the South Pole the spot in East Antarctica where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface there is however a certain degree of wobble to the Earth's orbit so the exact location tends to move around a little bit like a spinning top or a drunk football hooligan with one leg slightly shorter than the other it's fun to imagine things isn't it number 24 although it's buried by ice that actually is land under the service of Antarctica and is therefore land under the South Pole this is not the case at the North Pole though where there is no land only ocean covered in a thick layer of ice ice ice baby number 25 at roughly 14 million square kilometres Antarctica is the planet's fifth largest continent Antarctica is almost one-and-a-half times the size of the United States about twice the size of Australia and 58 times the size of us in the old UK we so tiny number 26 the craziest continent to Antarctica is South America the southern tip is part of Chile which is separated from Antarctica by about 800 kilometers a stretch of ocean known as the Drake Passage I wonder if that passes just mumbles words sometimes ever of offbeat percussion piecing course of music as well yes right Trey come on to you number 27 the gonk end to an icy sheet that covers Antarctica extends to all but the northernmost points of the Antarctic Peninsula leaving barely 1% of Antarctica uncovered by an enormous layer of ice number 28 this massive blanket of ice averages roughly 1.9 kilometers in thickness but at its thickest this extremely large coating of ice for which you can tell I'm running out of synonyms for is an incredible four lammeter sick that's sick with like 5,000 C's at the end number 29 when it's winter at Antarctica the sea ice around the continent grows at a staggering rate of 40 thousand square miles a day that's roughly the size of the entire US States for Kentucky which happens to be where Jennifer Lawrence was born what's that got to do with Antarctica well shut up number 30 the largest iceberg in recorded history broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in March of 2000 the iceberg dubbed to be 15 covered an area of roughly 11,000 square kilometres which is slightly larger than Jamaica which is not where Jennifer Lawrence's from number 31 all that ice in Antarctica by the way stores approximately 70 percent of the planets freshwater and around 90 percent of the planet's freshwater ice that's some nice ice you've got there Antarctica wouldn't it be a shame if you were to overuse emissions and maybe melt it number 32 and that massive ice sheet covering Antarctica the one with an average 1.9 kilometre thickness and holding 70% of the planets freshwater it's existed for at least 40 million years is that thick and that old it's like your mama oh I'm sorry that that pretty was horrible I'm sorry number 33 Antarctica also has the highest average elevation of all the continents at around 8200 feet above sea level the elevation at the South Pole though is higher at nine thousand three hundred feet however the highest point on the entire continent is Mount Vinson the highest mountain in Antarctica which proudly stands at sixteen thousand and fifty feet number 34 however Antarctica has more mountains on offer you just might not be able to see them the gambits of mountains are a range of jagged peaks that stretch 1,200 kilometers across the continent and reach a height of 9,000 feet sadly the gambit server totally buried under all the aforementioned ice number 35 but where you have a peak you need valleys too in 2010 scientists covered a trench on arctica that could rival even the Grand Canyon the unnamed Canyon let's call it Peter extends over 60 miles Peter is also more than 6 miles wide and more than a mile deep just like yet no matching you're gonna go there scientists even speculate that if they explore further it could be even larger thirty-six there is a common yet bigoted belief that all deserts a sandy and hot whereas actually deserts are defined by how dry they are to that end not only is Antarctica a desert it's the largest desert on earth with an average level of precipitation of only eight inches around the coast and even less inland eight inches that's enough for nope come on stopping that now number 37 in fact there are some parts of Antarctica that have had no rain or snow at all for the last two million years which is a long time to never be wet that sounded better in my head number 38 you therefore may be asking yourself if there's no precipitation in Antarctica what's with all the snow and blizzards good question and I like your voice the thick level of ice and snow has accumulated over millions of years and it's blown around by colossal winds which picks snow up from the surface causing powerful blizzards even though very little precipitation falls on the actual sky number 39 all right so let's take the gloves off let's get to the main exhibit how cold is Antarctica well average winter temperatures in coastal areas range between minus 10 degrees Celsius and minus 30 degrees Celsius but areas further inland a much colder the average winter temperature at the South Pole is around minus 49 degrees Celsius however on the 21st of July 1983 the temperature at Vostok station in East Antarctica fell to a truly terrifying - eighty nine point two degrees Celsius for all you fahrenheit is by the way that's minus 128 point six degrees Fahrenheit this by the way is the lowest temperature ever recorded on planet Earth amazingly even colder temperatures to drop below minus ninety degree Celsius have been measured from space but official records have to be taken from the surface number forty conversely the highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was a positively mild 17.5 degrees Celsius for just sixty three point five degrees Fahrenheit which occurred on the 24th of March 2015 at Argentina's Esperanza Research Station tropical number 41 Antarctica is also the windiest continent on Earth as well winds that flow down the coastal slopes under the influence of gravity knows katabatic winds have been recorded speeds of up to 204 miles per hour the meaning of life the largest of Antarctica's ice shelves which are a normal sheets of ice that extend onto the surrounding waters is the Ross Ice Shelf which measures roughly 510 thousand square kilometers that's slightly bigger by the way than the entire nation of Spain it's big basically but don't visit their own holiday unlike Spain which I hear it's nice number 43 Antarctica is surrounded by the enormous circumpolar current the world's largest wind driven current which circles clockwise around Antarctica from west to east the circumpolar current is instrumental in moving heat nutrients salt and marine life around the world's main ocean so thanks circumpolar current number 44 right now is the bit where we let you all know how bad he was screwing up Antarctica with this global warming lark according to the US national snow and ice data center the coolest place to be but under the Antarctic Peninsula has increased in temperature by roughly four point five degrees Fahrenheit since 1950 which is about five times the rate of warming for the rest of the world which by the way that's bad news number 45 additionally almost 90% of the entire trip renews glaciers are in retreat they're melting basically which again bad number 46 the hole in the ozone layer is located directly above or below depending on your persuasion Antarctica and is about twice the size of the entirety of Europe since the banning of certain chemicals used by industry research has shown that the hole in the ozone layer has stopped growing and it's beginning to recover Alfea it very slowly number 47 according to the European Space Agency ice melting in West Antarctica has caused a small dip in the gravity field over the region demonstrating that global warming will affect the planet in ways more complicated and bizarre than we would immediately assume oh dear number 48 the ice sheet that covers West Antarctica aptly named the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming up as a direct result of global warming causing fears of it breaking up our to break up if the West Antarctic ice sheets melted entirely it would raise global average sea levels by 5 meters which would devastate coastal areas and small islands around the world which by the way say it with me guys is bad number 49 in the unlikely but not getting any less unlikely worst-case scenario that all ice in Antarctica melted sea levels would rise by roughly 60 metres or 200 feet this would completely flat major cities like London Stockholm and Berlin and the Netherlands would be almost entirely underwater which is really really bad cuz I live in one of those places number 50 the flora ie plants and stuff found in Antarctica is fairly limited mostly because as we've already covered it's really really cold Antarctic flora consists of approximately 30 liverworts 100 mosses 250 lichens 700 species of algae an uncertain number of mostly microscopic fungi and a grand total of two flowering plants number 51 fauna ie all the animals and stuff found in Antarctica is a tad more exciting invertebrate life includes a number of microscopic mites lice nematodes tardigrades springtails and krill the flightless made - known as bélgica Antarctica which can grow to a colossal size of 6 millimetres is the largest purely terrestrial animal and Antarctica number 52 the Antarctic region is home to very few rest'll vertebrates these include a number of duck species and a single endemic passerine bird known as the South Georgia pipit which are all found on the Antarctic island of South Georgia luckily however Antarctica's amphibious and marine vertebrates tend to be really cool such as blue whales orcas colossal squid seals and several adorable species of penguins how to like that Benedict Cumberbatch number 53 penguins are the most common bird in Antarctica and according to the British Antarctic Survey living colonies with populations that would rival small cities some penguin species such as the Emperor and Adelie penguin make their mainland Antarctica home while others such as the king penguin breed on outlying islands where conditions are less harsh what is number 54 Antarctica is also the only continent without reptiles or amphibians like frogs and newts additionally an - known to have colonized almost every landmass on earth except for a few remote and inhospitable lands as well as the frozen nightmare that is Antarctica number 55 additionally despite many stupid people believing otherwise there are no polar bear and I'm tart to cut polar bears our side only in the Arctic conversely there are no Penguins in the Arctic as they live solely in the southern hemisphere except for a small number in the Galapagos Islands that straddled the equator like a cowboy on a wild stallion also I swear Tim Penguins in colchester before our white asses ooh number 56 in fact according to the British Antarctic Survey the soils found in the frozen deserts of Antarctica are the least habitats on earth in terms of fauna it's super hard to live there guys even for animals that aren't super lame like humans number 57 however the ancient dinosaurs lived on every continent including Antarctica as earth was much warmer during the Mesozoic era making Antarctica much more habitable the very first fantastic dinosaur to be discovered was found on James Ross Island in 1986 and was subsequently named and taught to peltor Oliver Roy number 58 unlike every other continent on earth there are absolutely no indigenous human populations nature to Antarctica the reasons why should be obvious but for the particularly dim among you it's really really cold you can't grow crops will raise livestock in tundra use your head guys number 59 however throughout the year anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside at the research station scattered across the continent almost 30 countries operate more than 80 research stations in Antarctica proving that scientists are either highly dedicated to the noble quest for knowledge or stupid number 60 initially there are a couple of very small civilian settlements in Antarctica the larger of the two is a Chilean town called Villa las Australis which is home to fewer than 200 people the vast majority of whom are men sounds boring however the settlement has a post office medical facilities a gym and a primary school attended by approximately 15 students and containing three computers providing the town's sole access to the Internet hey if you're watching guys number 61 even smaller is the Argentinian civilian settlement of Esperanza base which has a school a cemetery and even a scouting troop who claimed to be the southernmost in the world the talent Amato is permanence an act of sacrifice which sounds more like a lyric from an evanescent song but you do you Esperanza bass number 62 not only that between 35,000 and 40,000 visit Antarctica purely as tourists no just just no number 63 a small island in the McMurdo Sound upon the name of ross island is home to the u.s. antarctic programs McMurdo Station the largest Antarctic settlement capable of supporting over 1,200 residents and is also the location of Mount Erebus the world's southernmost active volcano nintendo64 McMurdo Station happens to be the home to the only working ATM in the entirety of Antarctica though there is a second one which can be dismantled for parts when the main one breaks the location of this 80 makes it the most southernmost ATM in the world number 65 many of the research stations scattered across Antarctica have fully stocked bars presumably to keep residents from gumming fully insane those working at McMurdo Station are lucky as it has two bars to choose from one man a physicist named Phil Broten ended up as a voluntary bartender at Club 90 South the borrow the amundsen-scott South Pole Station and observed that pretty much everybody who applied for a job there was trying to escape something yikes that is heavy number 66 staggering leader in the early 1960s and early 70s McMurdo Station was powered by a medium-sized portable nuclear reactor however due to a number of safety issues such as water leaks and hairline cracks in the reactor no Komodo station is now powered by diesel generators number 67 another interesting Antarctic Island is the ominously named deception Island one of the small outlying islands in the Antarctic Peninsula deception Island is home to an active volcano famous for two giant eruptions in the 60s which demolished research centers a cemetery and an abandoned aircraft hangar number 68 owing to the presence of an active volcano deception Island is also home to hot springs reaching up to roughly 70 degrees Celsius or 160 degrees Fahrenheit which is entirely possible to bathe in if you're insane enough to bring your swim shorts this in conjunction with the colony of adorable rockhopper penguins have made deception island somewhat of a tourist destination for those who would be bored by package holiday - for Ventura number 69 ice judea island a tiny island located in the bay port lockroy near the coast of winky island it's home to a former british research base that's been converted into an ATAR takara trade center and museum the center also has a post office whoa and it's become one of the most popular tourist attractions in all of Antarctica number 70 tourists to Antarctica can enjoy watching the Aurora Australis also known as the Southern Lights which are a natural night display found in the southern polar region in the same way that the northern lights or the aurora borealis are found in the northern polar region the southern lights are far more elusive than the northern counterpart mostly due to a distinct lack of easily accessible land from which to view them number 71 in the 60s scientist found 480 kilometer wide crater buying more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet known as the wokes land praetor its thoughts have been created around 250 million years ago which many considered to be the title meteor impact which caused the permian-triassic extinction the largest known extinction event in the planets history when roughly 96% of all life on Earth died out number 72 some people believe that the size and location of the Wilkes land crater also suggests that the impact that created it could have prompted the breakup of the aforementioned two Gondwana supercontinent by creating a tectonic rift pushing Australia northward to a much warmer future number 73 as a result of scientific research over several decades over 200 lakes have been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheets many of these sub glacial lakes have been isolated from the surface for millions of years and kept liquid by extreme pressures and the warmth of the Earth's core number 74 by far the largest of these sub glacial lakes is Lake Vostok a freshwater lake around the size of Lake Ontario buried around 2.5 miles of ice in East Antarctica like other sub glacial lakes Lake Vostok represents a unique environment entirely cut off from the outside world the may contain species completely new to science get drilling guys number 75 another antarctica lake that happens to not be trapped under miles of ice is deep lake good name located in the Vestfold hills on the eastern coast of East Antarctica deep lake is so salty that it cannot freeze despite water temperatures falling to minus 20 degrees Celsius at its deepest point number 76 like the Arctic to the north Antarctica's polar location renders the entire continent completely dark during the winter and allows Antarctic vampires to run amok for much longer than they are able to at other times of the year converting researchers in the old penguin into their own holy dynasty that last bit marking a lie but it's just dark lots basically number 37 conversely during the summer months the Sun doesn't set at all during this period Antarctica receives more sunlight than the equator number 78 at these times a persistent issue with which humans have to contend with is sunburn this is exacerbated by all the snow and ice that covers well you know everything which reflects almost all the UV rays that hits Antarctica scorching all the poor little researchers and expeditioners not wearing sufficient protection number 79 the extremely low temperatures also result in very low humidity which causes dry skin and Eclipse as such those living in Antarctica accompany applying chapstick like an adolescent girl at a school dance I imagine number 80 funnily enough one of the biggest dangers faced by those living and working in Antarctica is fire the extreme dry environment remember it's a desert makes it very easy for fires to ignite and the sub-zero temperatures make large amounts of liquid water very hard to come by number 81 as such there are several fire departments in Antarctica the largest best-equipped in southern most regular fire department is the Antarctic Fire Department based at McMurdo Station Antarctic Fire Department maintains a staff of around 46 in the summer but when the population of McMurdo Station falls in winter the Fire Department staff decreases to only 12 people number 82 since 1994 all non-human animals not native to Antarctica have been banned from the entire continent this ban applied primarily to huskies that have been used to pull sleds over fears they could transfer canine diseases to other animals or break free and disturb and even attack the native wildlife like those tardigrades and stuff number 83 3 number 83 as a result of being centered around the South Pole at the bottom of the planet Antarctica is the only continent to without a time zone very often those living and working in Antarctica simply use the time zones of their own nations that sounds like an organizational accident waiting to happen imagine trying to book an appointment number 84 not only are there schools gyms and vie stations in Antarctica there are also a total of 8 Christian churches scattered across it half of these are Catholic 3 Eastern Orthodox and one is specifically nondenominational number 85 there are also more than 40 airports in Antarctica which are useful for when you arrive instantly regret your decision to become a penguin researcher and get right back on the next plane out of there number 86 one lucky scientist at McMurdo Station once got a date with a woman camping just a short 45 minute helicopter ride away by using the popular dating app tinder never heard of it after a few weeks they were able to arrange a very brief meet-up but she was due to leave the next day the scientists who asked for anonymity due to concerns that the government workers insert privileges if they found out confirm that while they were about to meet up they did not in fact her cut sad times number 87 another interesting ecology for which Antarctica is known is it's meteorites and articles considered pretty much the best place on earth to find them as the dark rocks are easily visible against the snow and ice and they're often largely undisturbed by natural processes as a result approximately 90% of all meteorites are found in Antarctica number 88 but it's not just old rocks that have been found in Antarctica the frozen continent is also where the discovery was made of the world's oldest sperm sorry that guy from tinder it wasn't really the guy from tinder sorry dude it was actually sperm cells from the fossilized cocoon of ancient worm which has been dated back to approximately 50 million years ago number 89 there's a sinister looking waterfall in Antarctica that terrifyingly appears to flow with blood the liquid flowing out from it is a deep shade of red which was first attributed to red algae but later proven to be caused by iron oxides you a biblical apocalypse was on us again number 90 disappointingly no sitting US president has ever visited Antarctica I think this would be the perfect opportunity in fact and maybe just maybe could stay there too number 91 despite it being genital shrinking ly cold the vast majority of the time a half marathon full marathon and incredibly a 100k run take place every year in Antarctica loonatics I shall have no part in that I can't even run downstairs without breaking my collarbone true story number 92 close to the southern pole of inaccessibility to find us the point in antarctica furthest from any ocean there is an old soviet scientific research hut buried six meters deep it's immediately noticeable by the eerie bust of Lenin staring in the direction of Moscow which is actually attached to the Hutts roof if you bury down into the entombed Hut I managed to open the doors and get inside there's a nice visitors book for you to sign not creepy at all number 93 at the entrance of the lemaire channel on the Antarctic Peninsula there are two enormous towers of basalt the formation is officially named una Peaks but the towers are known colloquially as an excuse me for saying this earnest it's after una Spivey a woman who worked on what is now the British Antarctic Survey at Stanley in the Falkland Islands is that disrespectful that feels disrespectful number 94 in 2001 an American man named Travis McHenry claimed a huge amount of the Antarctic Peninsula as his own nation via a supposed loophole in the Arctic Treaty McHenry is the creator of several micronations none of which have been recognized by any world government number 95 many researchers in Antarctica sorry Wildlife and others studied glaciers but a select few researchers living in the heart of Antarctica and extreme isolation specifically to examine the effects of a long space mission to Mars number 96 so-called Antarctic and dollars.the collectors items produced by the Antarctic overseas exchange office in the amount of national money for the continent of Antarctica proceeds from the sale event arkin dollars fund organizations carrying out research and humanitarian projects in the Antarctic region number 97 in 1961 a Soviet surgeon by the name of Leonid rogue azov Deborah depend a scientist while stationed at the novolazarevskaya station as the only doctor there with rapidly worsening symptoms rocket off was forced to operate on himself to remove his own appendix the operation took 1 hour and 45 minutes and was a complete success and ragga zov was back to normal duties in just a couple of weeks bad ass or arse as we say in the UK number 98 Antarctica even has its own country code top-level domain dot aq it's reserved for organizations that conduct work in or promote Antarctica and the southern ocean regions number 99 in 2009 metal band Metallica performed for an audience of 120 people near the heliport of the Argentine Antarctic base Collini in a gig that they dubbed freeze them all in order to abide by the rules put in place to preserve the front our local environment the band played the entire show without amplification instead transmitting the sound to headphones worn by the audience yes it was a silent concert is a good job it was silent too because otherwise they might all end up being trapped under ice haha if you know Metallica that's a great joke yeah yeah however freeze Amal was not the first rock concert to take place in Antarctica during live earth in 2007 an indie rock quintet called nuna Tech comprised a British scientist performed to a sellout crowd of 17 people in doing so Live Earth fulfilled their promise to hold a concert on all seven continents won a number of marine creatures that live in chilly waters around Antarctica her proteins in their blood that actors are not anti-freeze this prevents them from freezing over solid like weird fishy ice lollies I think that's pretty cool like this video when fat bisque video was icy cold I hope you enjoyed it let me know the comments below also what do you want to see next otherwise how the heck do I know what to do let me know in the comments down below as well and hey I think you're gonna really like one of these two videos on screen now go ahead pick one make my day bye

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Published: Thu Feb 22 2018