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1. JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH Tishani Doshi

2. She is a poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai. She writes a blog titled "Hit or Miss" on Cricinfo She is also collaborated with cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan on his biography She works as a freelance writer and worked with choreographer Chandralekha

3. Countries of the Body (poetry) Conflict and Instability (with [Tobias Hill] and Aoife Mannix) The Pleasure Seekers (fiction) Everything Begins Elsewhere (poetry) Fountainville (fiction), Seren Books The Adulterous Citizen: poems, stories, essays Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

4. T h e s h i p h a s - t w o p a s s e n g e r decks, dining rooms, a bar, a library, and a s a u n a , a n d accommodates 54 passengers.

5. It is an ice- strengthened ship, built in Finland in 1982 originally used for oceanographic research. In 1998 she was fully refurbished to serve as a research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work she is used also for expedition cruising. She is named after the Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky.

6. Gondwana was half of the Pangaea supercontinent, along with a northern supercontinent known as Laurasia.

7. Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that broke up about 180 million years ago. The continent eventually split into landmasses we recognize today: Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula.

8. The familiar continents of today are really only a temporary arrangement in a long history of continental movement. Landmasses on Earth are in a constant state of slow motion, and have, at multiple times, come together as one.

9. India moving towards the Eurasian Plate which resulted in the formation of the Himalayas.

10. A cordillera is an extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges. The term is particularly applied to the various ranges of the Andes of South America, and less frequently to other mountain ranges in the "ridge" that rims the Pacific Ocean.

11. PRECAMBRIAN time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life- forms almost four billion years later.

12. The Precambrian is the earliest of the geologic ages, which are marked by different layers of sedimentary rock. Laid down over millions of years, these rock layers contain a permanent record of the Earth's past, including the fossilized remains of plants and animals buried when the sediments were formed.

13. It is a narrow body of water between Antarctica and South America that serves as an ocean- going connecting point between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Named after the English navigator, Sir Francis Drake This stretch of water is frequented by icebergs, huge waves and plagued by gale- force winds.

14. very small, length 0.5 - 2.0 mm there are thousands of species, of which many live on animals. They have 8 legs and a body with little or no segmentation. egg, larval, nymphal and adult stages.

15. tiny two- winged flies that superficially resemble mosquitoes. midges are harmless, with small mouthparts that are not elongated into a piercing structure for blood feeding.

16. The Western Antarctic Ice Sheet is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the Western Hemisphere.

17. West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Temperature of the WAIS seems to rise at alarming levels. The WAIS is classified as a marine- based ice sheet, meaning that its bed lies well below sea level and its edges flow into floating ice shelves.

18. How fast sea level rises will depend a lot on how fast the West Antarctic ice sheet crumbles.

19. The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension, the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, exits through the Strait of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

20. The Gulf Stream splits in two, with the northern stream crossing to northern Europe and the southern stream recirculating off West Africa. The Gulf Stream influences the climate of the east coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland, and the west coast of Europe.

21. Founder, Executive Director & Expedition Leader Educator, social entrepreneur and adventurer

22. Geoff made his first expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic in 1994. He was profoundly inspired by these cornerstones of our global ecosystem He has since led more than 120 expeditions to the Polar Regions & dozens of journeys to the most remote corners of the planet.

23. Geoff is the Founder and Executive Director of Students on Ice An award- winning program that has taken more than 2,500 youth, educators, elders, experts, scientists, leaders and artists from around the world on educational journeys to the Arctic and Antarctic It supports initiatives related to youth, education and the environment in the Polar regions.

24. Their mandate - –to educate the world’s youth about the importance of the Polar Regions – to support their continued growth and to inspire initiatives that contribute to global sustainability. The SOI Foundation is internationally recognized as a pioneer and leader in Polar Education.

25. Phytoplankton is the base of several aquatic food webs.

26. They provide food for a wide range of sea creatures including whales, shrimp, snails, and jellyfish. Phytoplankton, also known as microalgae, contain chlorophyll and require sunlight in order to live and grow. Most phytoplankton float in the upper part of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates the water.

27. Tadpole Island - an Antarctic Island

28. Gore- Tex is a waterproof, breathable fabric membrane. Invented in 1969, Gore- Tex can repel liquid water while allowing water vapor to pass through and is designed to be a lightweight, waterproof fabric for all- weather use. It is composed of Teflon.

29. Crabeater Seals

30. They are medium- to large- sized (over 2 m in length) relatively slender and pale-colored found primarily on the free- floating pack ice that extends seasonally out from the Antarctic coast they use the ice pack as a platform for resting, mating, social aggregation and accessing their prey. They are by far the most abundant seal species in the world.

31. Mammoth, any member of an extinct group of elephants found as fossils.The woolly, Northern, or Siberian mammoth is by far the best- known of all mammoths.

32. The woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.