Community | August 30, 2012 | 1 comment

The oldest place on Earth

source: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/06/the-oldest-place-on-earth/

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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/06/the-oldest-place-on-earth/

The Friis Hills in Antarctica are dead and dry, nothing but gravel and sand and boulders. The hills sit on a flattop mountain 60 kilometers from the coast. They are blasted by cold winds that scream off the Antarctic Ice Sheet 30 kilometers farther inland. The temperature here falls to -50° Celsius during winter, and rarely climbs above -5° in summer. But an unbelievable secret hides just below the surface. Adam Lewis and Allan Ashworth found it the day a helicopter dropped them off in the rolling terrain.

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/06/the-oldest-place-on-earth/
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    Community,   Earth and Science,   Learn,   Indigenous
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    mountain,  friis hills,  dead and dry,  father inland
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1 comment // The oldest place on Earth

  • johnnyTremaine
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      johnnyTremaine  

    • See you tube video: The Secret Land, a US navy military expedition to Antartica in 1947. amazing and more sinister is Admiral James Forrestal's murder in 1949 by the Naval Intelligence.

    • 9 months ago
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