五、谁认识南极真面目 南极洲,一片面积为1200～1500万平方公里的大陆,目前全部为冰层所覆盖,是“不适于人类生存”的地方。在1830年为北美的捕鲸人员发现以前,一直都被认为那里始终披盖着一层冰雪的外衣,只有苔藓、地衣、海藻、没有翅膀的小虫、微生物和著名的企鹅,才在这片冰封的大陆上居住。 地质学家最近才发现,南极并非一直为冰层所覆盖——实际上,南极并非一直在南极!这片大陆曾在其北面今天撒哈拉所在的地方,其地下蕴藏的深厚煤层,证明今天人们挣扎于寒风和零度以下的气候的那块地方,当年却是热带植物丛生和禽兽繁衍之处。 V. Who knows Antarctica, a continent with an area of ​​1200-1500 square kilometers, now covered entirely by ice, is “not suitable for human survival”. Before it was discovered for North American whalers in 1830, it had always been thought that there was always a layer of ice and cloak there, only moss, lichen, seaweed, wingless bugs, microbes and the famous penguin. Living on the frozen mainland. Geologists have only recently discovered that the Antarctic is not always covered by ice - in fact, the Antarctic is not always at the Antarctic! This continent, once in the Sahara today to the north, has deep underground coal seams that prove to be struggling today In the cold climate and the subzero climate of the place, when it is tropical plant tufts and animals breeding place.