Can people live in Antartica ?

Question

If not,why can Penguins live in Antartica?

Answer 1

An interesting and thoughtful question. The closest anybody has ever got to living in Antarctica off the land was Ernest Shackleton's party on Elephant Island when they were shipwrecked there in the middle of World War 1. This was the Olympics of survival stories. These guys lived off penguins, seals and fish. Some other shipwrecked sailors and abandoned sealers have lived in similar conditions for years too. The conditions on Elephant Island are probably no tougher than in some parts of Northern Siberia, Canada and Greenland, where Inuit have lived for thousands of years. But the difference is that you have to cross hundreds of miles of the worst waters in the world to get from South America to Antarctica, so the first human to set foot there didn't arrive until 1820. Asians walked across the land bridge to Alaska and on to Greenland thousands of years ago when sea levels were lower. Their descendants who had wandered south through the Americas had to stop at Tierra del Fuego because of the deep sea Drake Passage, which stopped them wandering further south to the Antarctic Peninsula. Maori settled sub-Antarctic islands south of New Zealand in pre-European times. Places like the Auckland and Campbell islands. They would have had to have made superhuman trips across open water, tougher than the Vikings did to Iceland, Greenland and Canada. So the answer to your question is sure, people can live in Antarctica, now. I am a NZer who spent a few months there a while back, in comfort, with the help of modern technology. But there are no indigenous Antarcticans like there are Eskimos because unlike Arctic places there's too much water to cross in a canoe, and there was never a land bridge during the last Ice Age. Oh yeah, there's at least one native Antarctican. A baby was born at a Chilean base there a few years back.

Answer 2

People live in specially designed scientific outposts but construction costs, generators, transportation and anything else you can think of have to be especially designed to survive and work in the extreme temperatures which make them ultra expensive. Penguins have evolved for that type of climate gradually over several million years perhaps. And the cold didn't happen all at once at times in Earth's history both the arctic circle and antarctic were quite a bit warmer.

Answer 3

People can, and various scientific expeditions have spent time there. But few want to, without very good reason. See the PBS show Nature, "Penguins of the Antarctic," for a good overview of their lifestyle and suitability for that climate. They are very well insulated, can go months without food, and cluster tightly during the winter.

Answer 4

Why are there no polar bears in Antarctica? The distribution of all animals is a function of positive fortune and historic previous. Having each and every thing you like isn't any assure of having the flexibility to realize any ingredient on the globe as quickly as you're there because of the fact it ought to no longer be available to get there interior the 1st place. Polar bears possibly developed very presently (approximately 2 hundred,000 years to in all probability as long as 500,000 years in the past) from grizzly bears someplace off jap Russia or the Alaskan Panhandle. they are completely based upon sea ice for their known habitat for procuring their foodstuff (specially ringed seals and bearded seals). because of the fact the international's oceans by no skill have been frozen from the north to the south, polar bears by no skill have had the possibility to realize the Antarctic. Polar bears are good swimmers yet no longer good adequate to swim to the Antarctic. some species have wider distributions because of the fact their habitats have been linked at it gradual interior the distant previous. as an occasion, grizzly bears (additionally referred to as brown bears) stay interior america, Canada, Russia, Spain, Italy or perhaps Norway! They crossed over a land bridge between Russian and Alaska. a similar is actual for wolves, wolverines, lynx and many different species. despite the fact that, polar bears could certainly like the Antarctic. interior the absence of polar bears, seals and penguins interior the Antarctic at the instant are not afraid of predators (different than leopard seals and killer whales). A polar undergo could have various relaxing and in all probability get very very fat! on the detrimental area, the seals and penguins could be devastated. Polar bears are particularly extra suitable off interior the Arctic.

Answer 5

no not at all
who would like to live insuch cold climate penguins can adjust in such habitat but it is very difficult no food no house in such a cold climate

Answer 6

yes,there is also place called dakshin ganga where some people live

Answer 7

yes with conditions

Answer 8

i dont think so but some eskimos are living it seems...