{"id":26,"date":"2007-12-25T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/2007\/12\/25\/26\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T09:57:24","slug":"26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/20071228-ice-shelf.jpg\" title=\"Ice Shelf at Blaskimen Bukta\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/20071228-ice-shelf.jpg\" alt=\"Ice Shelf at Blaskimen Bukta\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ice covers the continent, a giant several kilometers thick in places.\u00c2\u00a0 It is formed on the high plateau inland and moves as enormous glaciers towards the distant sea, where sections\u00c2\u00a0break off each summer &#8211; the birth of ice-bergs\u00c2\u00a0 At Blaskiment Bukta, where the SA expedition unloads cargo and vehicles destined for SANAE IV, the shelf is still half a kilometer in thickness.\u00c2\u00a0 Averaging 50m height above the water,\u00c2\u00a0it\u00c2\u00a0extends\u00c2\u00a0more than 80 km out to sea beyond the\u00c2\u00a0continent&#8217;s edge.\u00c2\u00a0 In winter, the sea freezes for hundreds of kilometers further &#8211; Antarctica\u00c2\u00a0doubles in size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ice covers the continent, a giant several kilometers thick in places.\u00c2\u00a0 It is formed on the high plateau inland and moves as enormous glaciers towards the distant sea, where sections\u00c2\u00a0break off each summer &#8211; the birth of ice-bergs\u00c2\u00a0 At Blaskiment Bukta, where the SA expedition unloads cargo and vehicles destined for SANAE IV, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}