Todd Latham joined Robert Swan and an international group of people on an expedition to Antarctica in March 2011. Part of the 2041.com effort to educate the world about climate change, renewable energy and the future of the planet's last untouched wilderness - Antarctica.
2. Antarctic
Explorers
Ernest Shackleton
lost his ship but
saved all his men
Roald Amundsen
from Norway was the
first to reach the South Robert F. Scott
Pole in 1911. was a British hero
3. Robert Swan
- The first person to walk to BOTH
the South Pole and the North Pole!
– Polar explorer & founder of 2041.com
4. Facts about Antarctica
• It is bigger than Canada! - 14 million sq. km.
• Nobody owns Antarctica but some countries
think they do.
• The most cold, dry and windy place on earth.
• Antarctica is a peaceful and unspoiled
wilderness, dedicated to science, with a
worldwide agreement that doesn’t allow
armies, mining or drilling for oil.
5. We flew to Argentina
to start our journey...
... you can also get
to Antarctica from
Africa, New Zealand
or Australia!
6. The bottom of South America –
over 11,000km from Toronto and still 3,900km away
from the South Pole!
There were 72 people from
all over the world on the trip
7. We left for the bottom of the planet…
across the scary Drake Passage.
The waves were bigger than a truck!
8. What is it like there?
NOT like this!
Did you know that polar
bears live in the far north
and penguins live in the
far south – they don’t live
together!
9. I’m eating ice that
is 10,000 years old!
We explored on zodiacs
(special boats), learned about
the environment and saw lots of
animals. What kind did we see?
10. Penguins!
This is a baby Gentoo penguin
– one of the most common
that we saw… - there were
thousands of them and they
pooped all over the place!
11. Did You Know………?
• Baby penguins ‘molt’ - they
shed the feathers they are born with.
When young penguins are still
covered in down, they have
less chance of survival if it
rains and they get wet.
The down protects them from the snow;
but the rise in global temperatures
means that it rains more in Antarctica.
• There are seven kinds of
penguins…
17. Facts about Antarctica
• Antarctica holds 70% of the world’s fresh water.
• Many of these huge icebergs have broken away
from the land and are slowly melting.
• If a lot of the ice melts, many coastal cities
will go under water and people will lose homes.
18. The ice is very old and
very thick – in some
places it is over seven
times as tall as the
CN Tower!
Icebergs and glaciers
are really, really BIG!
21. I DID !
Many of us took the “Polar Plunge”…
and went swimming in the ocean --it
was really cold!
22. While nobody
owns Antarctica,
some people live
there… to study
There are about
10,000 scientists and
explorers from all over
the world who stay in
Antarctica each year.
23. International Antarctica
Expedition 2011
An adventure to better understand the
global environment with lots of smart
people… but we need you to help!
24. 5 things you can do…
• Recycle and reuse things instead of throwing
them in the garbage
• Turn off lights when you leave the room
• Don’t leave the water running
• Tell your friends to do those things too
• Keep learning about the environment and
maybe you’ll get to go to Antarctica when you
grow up!
25. “The world ought to have the sense to
leave just one place on earth alone.”
– Sir Peter Scott
