Did You Know?

• 53 million years ago, palm trees were growing in Antarctica!

• Antarctica has a fire department

• There are 1,150 different species of fungi in Antarctica

• Antarctica contains every timezone on the planet

• No polar bears live in Antarctica, because they actually live in the Arctic!

• 99% of Antarctica is covered by ice, however, there is land underneath

• Roald Amundsen was the first human to reach the South Pole on 14th December 1911

• Antarctica is larger than Europe and Australia!