{"id":266,"date":"2006-12-22T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=266"},"modified":"2006-12-22T07:00:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T06:00:52","slug":"forgotten-world-55-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (55): Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antartica\">Antarctica<\/a> is 14.425 million km\u00b2, making it the third-smallest continent after Europe and Australia. On average, it is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Some 98% of it is covered in ice, there has never been an indigenous population and there are no permanent human residents.<br \/>\nSeven countries &#8211; Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom &#8211; claim parts of the territory of Antarctica. The Argentine, British and Chilean claims all overlap. Australia has the greatest claim of Antarctic territory. Russia and the United States have reserved the right to make future claims.<br \/>\nThe Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959 by 12 countries. The treaty prohibits military activities and mineral mining, supports scientific research, and protects the continent&#8217;s ecozone. Ongoing experiments are conducted by more than 4,000 scientists of many nationalities and with different research interests.<br \/>\nMy wife has a great ambition to visit Antarctica, so watch this space &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica is 14.425 million km\u00b2, making it the third-smallest continent after Europe and Australia. On average, it is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Some 98% of it is covered in ice, there has never been an indigenous population and there are no permanent human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}