冰雪中的生命~ Hints： nursery Antarctica 2% permanently accumulate gigantic Alps
Other birds fly right to the heart of the continent, even though they have to dig away snow in order to find a place to nest . And here is the nursery for over half the world's seals.
Antarctica is remote from all other continents, surrounded by the vast southern ocean and smothered by a blanket of ice so immense that it contains over three quarters of the world's freshwater.
All life in the Antarctic is dominated by the ice. All but 2% of the continent is covered by it. Its very whiteness reflects back what little heat there is in the sun's feeble rays. And snow, when it falls, remains permanently frozen. So that now, after accumulating for millions of years, it has formed this gigantic ice cap and the ice beneath my feet is three miles thick.
Submerged beneath it are mountain ranges as high as the Alps, only their summits project through it.
其他鸟类飞过这里的中心地带,即使他们不得不为了找个地方巢而去挖积雪。这里是世界上一半以上海豹的幼儿园。
南极洲是远离所有其他大洲，四周环绕着广袤的南大洋和令人窒息的巨大无比的冰毯，冰毯中包含了超过全球四分之三的淡水。
南极所拥有最多的就是冰。而南极有2%的土地被冰雪覆盖。它洁白的冰层反射回来的是太阳那微弱的光线（所发出的）那一点点热。雪花在落地的时候将会永远在这里冻结。所以,现在,在积累了数百万年后,它形成了这个巨大的在我的脚下有三英里厚的冰盖。
在这个冰盖下，他所淹没的是像阿尔卑斯山一样高的山脉，在冰盖上仅仅只露出了他的顶点。
——译文来自: 静怡2012