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  • What is the name of the most southerly Australian Antarctic base?
    Davis
  • How do most tourists get to Antarctica?
    Cruise Ship
  • Polar deserts are areas with less than _____ millimetres of precipitation per year.
    250
  • What problems can tourism create in Antarctica?
    Pollution from oil spills & disturbance to animal habitats
  • What is the average temperature during the warmest month in a. polar desert?
    10 degrees celsius
  • What averge wind speeds did Douglas Mawson & his crew record?
    Over 70 kilometres per hour / gusts of over 300 kilometres per hour
  • Where are most research bases situated?
    On the 2% of Antarctica not covered in ice
  • What is the name of the driest valley in Antarctica?
    McMurdo Valley
  • Which continent is dryer: Australia or Antarctica?
    Antarctica
  • In some of the deepest parts, how deep is the ice sheet in Antarctica?
    4.8 kilometres
  • What is the average temperature during July - August in the South Pole?
    -60 degrees celsius
  • Antarctica's ice holds what percentage of the world's fresh water supply?
    70%
  • What is the name of the very strong winds that carry small pellets of ice and blow continually for weeks on end?
    Katabatic winds
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