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SERVICE  \nKnowsley Council  \nPlease return this book on or before the date shown below  \n# PROJLCT\n\nYou may return this book to any Knowsley libraryFor renewal please telephone  \nHalewood-4864442 Housebound Service·4434223Huyton/Mobile-4433734/5 Kirkby·4434290/89Page Moss-4899814 Prescot -4266449School Library Service-4434202Stockbridge Village-4803925 Whiston-4264757http://www.knowsley.gov.uk/  \n# GONTINENTS\n\nAntarctica  \nLeila Merrell Foster  \nwww.heinemann.co.uklibrary  \nVisit our website to find out more information about Heinemann Library books.  \nTo order:  \nPhone++44 (0)1865888066Send a fax to ++44(0)1865314091  \nVisit the Heinemann Bookshop at www.heinemann.co.uklibrary to browse our catalogue andorder online.  \nFirst published in Great Britain by Heinemann Library,Halley Court,Jordan Hill,Oxford OX28EJ,a division of ReedEducational and Professional Publishing Ltd.Heinemann is aregistered trademark of Reed Educational and ProfessionalPublishing Ltd.  \nOXFORD MELBOURNE AUCKLAND JOHANNESBURGBLANTYRE GABORONE IBADAN PORTSMOUTH NH(USA)CHICAGO  \n◎ Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd 2002The moral right of the proprietor has been asserted  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted inany form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise without either theprior written permission of the Publishers or a licencepermitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issuedby the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd,90 Tottenham CourtRoad,London W1P OLP.  \nDesigned by Depke DesignOriginated by Dot GradationsPrinted by South China Printing in Hong Kong,China  \n0605040302  \n10987654321  \nISBN 0431157944  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataFoster,Leila Merrell  \nAntarctica.-(Continents)  \n1.Antarctica-Juvenile literature  \nI.Title919.8'9  \nAcknowledgements  \nThe publishers are grateful to the following for permissionto reproduce copyright material:Tony Stone/Ben Osborne,p.4;Earth Scenes/David C.Fritts,p.6;Tony Stone/KimHeacox,p.7;Peter Arnold/Gordon Wiltsie,pp.8,13;TonyStone/Kim Westerskov,pp.11,17,28;Photo Edit/AnnaZuckermann,p.15;Photo Edit/Jack S.Grove,p.16;BruceColeman/Fritz Polking,Inc.,p.20;Animals Animals/JohnnyJohnson,p.21;Earth Scenes/Stefano Nicolini,p.22;EarthScenes/Patti Murray,p.23;Corbis/Bettmann Archive,p.24;The Granger Collection,p.25;Peter Arnold/Bruno P.Zehnder,p.27;Earth Scenes/B.Herrod,p.29.  \nCover photo reproduced with permission of Science PhotoLibrary/Tom Van Sant,Geosphere Project/Planetary Visions.  \nOur thanks to Jane Bingham for her assistance in thepreparation of this book.  \nEvery effort has been made to contact copyright holdersof any material reproduced in this book.Any omissionswill be rectified in subsequent printings if notice is givento the Publisher.  \n\n| Knowsley Library Service   |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 3804326717549   |  |\n| Askews   | 16-Jun-2003   |\n| J919.8   |  |\n| 1156673   |  |\n\nContents  \nWhere is Antarctica?………………………………………4  \nIce sheet………………  \n………………6  \nSouth Pole.  \n………………8  \nWeather……  \n………………………………10  \nMountains ..  \n…………………………12  \n…………………………14  \nIce……………………………………  \nGlaciers………………………  \n……………………16  \nOceans and seas..  \n………………………18  \nAnimals……  \n………………………20  \nPlants…………………  \n…………………22  \nExplorers……………  \n………………24  \n………………26  \nMany countries  \n……………28  \nScience……………  \nFast facts ………………  \n……………30  \n………3/  \nGlossary……………  \n……32  \nMore books to read.  \n…………32  \nIndex……………………  \nSome words are shown in bold, like this.  \nYou can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.  \n# Where isAntarctica?\n\nSnow-covered mountains in Antarctica  \nA continent is a vast mass of land that covers part of theEarth's surface.There are seven continents in the world,and Antarctica is the fifth largest.It is shaped almostlike a circle with the South Pole at its centre.Antarcticalies below the equator,in the half of 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