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Tonight I 'm going to talk to you about that remarkable continent Antarctica remote, hostile and at present uninhabited on a permanent basis.
今晚，我將向你介紹非凡的南極洲，一個遙遠(yuǎn)、環(huán)境惡略、目前沒有常住居民的地方。
For early explorers, it was the ultimate survival contest; for researchers like me, it remains a place of great intellectual challenge;
對于早期的探險(xiǎn)家來說，這是一場終極的生存競賽；對于像我這樣的研究者，這是一片充滿智力挑戰(zhàn)的地方；
while for the modern tourist, it's simply a wilderness of great beauty.
然而對于現(xiàn)代旅行者來說，這僅是一片極美的荒蕪之地。
First, some facts and figures.
首先來看看一些準(zhǔn)確的資料。
Antarctica is a place of extremes the highest, coldest and windiest continent and over fifty eight times the size of the UK.
南極洲有幾個極值。它是最高、最冷和風(fēng)最大的洲，它是英國面積的58倍多。
The ice cap contains almost 70% of the world's fresh water and 90% of its ice,
冰蓋富含世界上幾乎70%的淡水資源和90%的冰雪，但是降雪量非常低。
but with very low snowfall, most of the continent technically falls unbelievably into the category of desert!
難以置信的是，大洲的多數(shù)地區(qū)是沙漠地貌！
Huge icebergs break off the continent each year, while in winter half the surrounding ocean freezes over, which means its size almost doubles.
巨大的冰山每年從大洲脫離，冬天的時候，周圍一半的大洋被凍住，這使它的面積幾乎增加了雙倍。
