Antarctica the Icy Continent

ANTARCTICA- THE FROZEN CONTINENT- FIFTH LARGEST CONTINENT AMONG SEVEN CONTINENTS- Which is Windiest, Coldiest, Driest and Abnormal Continent.

Antarctica-South Pole

Antarctica-The South Pole -Bottom of  The Globe

Antarctica Surrounded by Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans

At the bottom of the globe, almost hidden from our view lies ANTARCTICA- the continent surrounded on all sides by formidable ocean called Southern Ocean. Having remained 'Terra Incognita' for centuries, Antarctica, though dreamt andpostulated by great phoilophers and explorers of yore, continued to be a mystery to mankind until 1820, when Cap. Bellingshausen, a Russian explorer, had the first glimpse of the continent from a distance. Thereafter, for seventy five long years, the extraordinary forces of mother nature kept at bay the daring attempts of men to land on this continent. Finally, on 24 January 1895 Borchgrevink, a Norwagiean amateur scientist, succeeded in touching the ground at Cape Adare in Ross Sea area of East Antarctica, becoming the first human to land on the frozen continent.