History of Antarctica

As part of the 'excite and explore' phase of this term's inquiry on "Antarctica', we have been learning how Antarctica has, over time, gone from being a warm continent to a cold continent at the bottom of the world.

We learned that Antarctica was once part of a 'super-continent' called Gondwanaland.



We looked at the different shapes of the present day continents and how they might have fitted into the jig-saw of Gondwanaland.

Did you know that Dinosaurs once roamed the ancient forests of Antarctica, when it was part of Gondwanaland? Neither did we until yesterday!