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Introduction About 470 million years ago, the freezing and desolate place that we now know as Antarctica used to be near the equator. This was because it was part of Gondwana (is sometimes referred to as a super-continent) that Australia, India, Africa and South-America now surround. The mere fact that Antarctica covers a massive amount of the Earth's continental crust is a major aspect when considering just how special and environmentally spectacular Antarctica is. Unlike the Arctic, Antarctica is an actual land mass. But a continental crust covers it with an average of 3 kilometres thick! In this booklet, I will try and explain why Antarctica is so special and therefore why we need to protect it, keep it as it has always been and not to exploit it. During the winter Antarctica doubles in size because of the large amount of sea ice that forms at its perimeter! The...

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