Some maps do not show Antarctica or show it distorted. I noticed this while home-schooling my two children. I investigated and was surprised to learn:
- Many nations, not just the United States, have established military bases on Antarctica.
- There is fresh liquid water in some parts of Antarctica, and there is a warm oasis there, too.
- There is an active volcano, called Mount Erebus.
- There are vast deposits of coal on Antarctica, implying it was once a much warmer place, with plants and animals, which are the source of coal. Antarctica is now much colder than it once was. This shows that our planet has undergone the opposite of global warming.
- Men used nuclear power on Antarctica, and leaked radioactive waste, which could have poisoned the land and the men that worked at the navy base.
