What are the traditions in Antarctica?

8 Antarctic Traditions

• Race Around the World. Photograph by Flickr user Alan Light.
• Icestock Music Festival. Photograph by Flickr user sandwich.
• Moving the Pole.
• Scott’s Hut Race and McMurdo Marathon.
• Ross Island Cup.
• Skua.
• 300 Club.
• Midwinter Day.

What are 3 facts about Antarctica?

Fast facts

• Antarctica is the highest, driest, coldest and windiest continent on Earth.
• Antarctica covers 14.2 million km² (5.5 million square miles)
• The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest ice store on earth. Area: 5.4 million square mile (14 million kilometres) Mass: 7.2 million cubic miles (30 million cubic metres)

What is Christmas like in Antarctica?

In many places in Antarctica, Christmas Day is celebrated in 24 hour daylight. Even the furthest north Antarctic places have only about an hour or so of dusk between sun down and sun up. A White Christmas is a pretty good bet!

What language is Antarctica?

The most commonly spoken language of Antarctica is Russian, which happens to be the official language of Bellingsgauzenia, New Devon, and Ognia. English is also one of the most widespread languages spoken. You can find English spoken in the Balleny Islands, New South Greenland, Eduarda, etc.

What is Antarctica famous for?

Often described as a continent of superlatives, Antarctica is not only the world’s southernmost continent. It is also the world’s highest, driest, windiest, coldest, and iciest continent. Antarctica is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size, and thick ice covers about 98 percent of the land.

Is anyone born in Antarctica?

Antarctica has no permanent residents. The first was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on 7 January 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. The first girl born on the Antarctic continent was Marisa De Las Nieves Delgado, born on May 27, 1978.

What language is spoken in Antarctica?

Is there McDonald’s in Antarctica?

There are over 36,000 McDonald’s locations all over the planet, and the chain is on every continent except Antarctica. In South America alone, there are over 1,400 stores.