Meet “Bip.” Bip is our office penguin. I guess I’d better explain! Have you heard of Flat Stanely or Flat Travelers? (*If not, go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Stanley) My husband Bob and I have a friend named Craig who just returned from a business trip to Antarctica! How cool is that?! (hehehe) We asked Craig to bring our stuffed penguin with him and take pictures of Bip exploring Antarctica. Craig, father of two young children, not only obliged, he bought his own kids penguins as well. Our Bip saw living penguins, spent the night in the Lunar Habitat, and rode on the enormous, 50-seat Antarctica transport bus, called, “Ivan the Terra bus”!! He didn’t make it all the way to the South Pole, but he reports back that yes, indeed, there is actually a “pole” planted at the South Pole!

From The NASA Press Release:

• Size (in relationship to other continents): fifth largest
• Area: about 5,400,000 square miles
• Highest point: Vinson Massif – 16,860 feet
• Biggest glaciers: Lambert, Amundsen, and Beardmore
• Snowfall: about twenty-five inches a year at the coast; only two inches a year on the plateau
• Lowest Temperature: -128.5 F at Vostok Research Base in 1983
• Volcano: Mr. Erebus, on the bottom tip of the Ross Ice Shelf
• Number of countries: none, although several countries lay claim to parts of the continent

1. Which two continents are smaller than Antarctica?
2. What type of climate does it have?
3. What lives there?
4. List several penguin species that live there. Draw one.
5. What are krill? What animals feed on it?
6. How much of the world’s entire supply of fresh water is in its ice and snow?
7. Who led the first expedition to the South Pole?
8. In what year did this expedition take place?
9. Is there really a “pole” at the South Pole?
10. What are some things scientists are learning about in Antarctica?
11. What kind of rocks are scattered all over Antarctica?

1. Put brown “X’s” on the Transantarctica Mountains
2. Color the Ross Ice Shelf yellow
3. Mark McMurdo Station with a red dot
4. Color the Antarctic Peninsula light green
5. Identify the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans and the Weddell Sea
6. Circle the Lambert Glacier
7. Put a “+’ by the South Pole

1. Claims to Antarctica by a variety of nations
2. Oil & mineral rights
3. Tourism

• Volcanic rocks served over the ice-shelf (aka Swedish meatballs over mashed potatoes)
• Or “Frozen dinners” hehehe (my dh’s suggestion)
• Iceberg lettuce salad
• Iced tea
• Snow-cones or Hostess Snowballs for dessert (yummy!)

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