{"id":18389,"date":"2020-12-23T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=18389"},"modified":"2020-12-19T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:47:27","slug":"get-ready-for-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=18389","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for Jeopardy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?attachment_id=18549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18549\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/map.Antarctica-300x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/map.Antarctica-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/map.Antarctica-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a>Christmas in Antarctica originally posted by Linda Lou Burton December 23, 2005 from Southern Ocean, Antarctica<\/em> &#8211; When I told people I was going to visit Antarctica, responses varied from \u201cWhere is that?\u201d to \u201cWhy would you want to do something like that?\u201d to \u201cWhat will you DO there?\u201d to \u201cIt will be mighty cold there.\u201d It\u2019s like humor, I guess, if you have to explain it to someone, you know they will never get it anyhow! The people I\u2019m traveling with on this ship are of one mind about Antarctica \u2013 they love it, are awed with it, and would come back in a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Now you, take a peek at the bottom end of your World Globe, and get your gourd ready for a game of <em>Jeopardy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some things to know about Antarctica, AKA, <em>The Ice<\/em>, gleaned from Alan Parker\u2019s lecture on Antarctica, and my <em>Lonely Planet<\/em> book. (<em>2020 update: Alan Parker died July 26, 2020. I am pleased I was privileged to hear him speak in 2005<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antarctica has no wars.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica\u2019s environment is fully protected.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica is a nature reserve devoted to peace and science.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica has no native population.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica has no native government; no country holds title over any part of it.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica is governed by the Antarctic Treaty, with 45 member nations, who meet annually to discuss scientific cooperation, environmental protection, management of tourism, and preservation of historic sites.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctic residents are temporary; people come to work in Antarctica from dozens of countries.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica\u2019s winter population is about 1,200 \u2013 one-third scientists and the rest support personnel; summer population is about 7,200.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica was visited by over 13,000 tourists in 2003 \u2013 40% from the US, 15% each from Germany and the U. K., 6% from Australia, and 3% each from Japan, Canada and Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctic tourism is controlled by IAATO, International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, and limits visitors to 100 at any place at any one time.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica is the world\u2019s most arid continent.<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?attachment_id=18552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18552\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18552\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Antarctica.aerial.-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Antarctica.aerial.-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Antarctica.aerial.-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Antarctica.aerial.-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Antarctica.aerial.-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Antarctica.aerial.-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Antarctica.aerial.-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Antarctica is the world\u2019s highest continent.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica is 99.6% covered by ice.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica\u2019s Lambert Glacier is the largest glacier in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica\u2019s Ice Sheet is 1.4 times the size of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica\u2019s Ice Sheet contains 70% of the world\u2019s fresh water.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica\u2019s ice is so thick, accumulating over millions of years, that its weight pushes the land mass underneath below sea level.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica\u2019s Ice Sheet melts very little, even though it has constant sunrays during summer months, because the sun\u2019s heat is reflected back by the ice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Question please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in Antarctica originally posted by Linda Lou Burton December 23, 2005 from Southern Ocean, Antarctica &#8211; When I told people I was going to visit Antarctica, responses varied from \u201cWhere is that?\u201d to \u201cWhy would you want to do something like that?\u201d to \u201cWhat will you DO there?\u201d to \u201cIt will be mighty cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4118],"tags":[4182,4189,244,4187,4188,3795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18550,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18389\/revisions\/18550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}