The second slice of the globe we will look at is Antarctica. In the northern polar region, I made the Arctic Circle the cut off line, but in the south I move the region out to the 60° Southern Latitude so the whole of the southern continent is included and nothing else.
We start at 0° Longitude and move east to 60° Longitude East for the first region.
60° to 120° Longitude east.
The third slice gets part of the inlet known as the Ross Sea.
Slice #4 is the first part of Western Antartica.
Antarctica has an effective population density of zero people per square mile, even less than Greenland. There's nobody there and there many nearby populated land masses. This region has the closest distance, about 800 miles across Drake's Passage to Tierra Del Fuego, some of the coldest, choppiest seas in the world.
Region 6 has another large inlet called the Weddell Sea. The Weddell and Ross Seas are home to the largest of the ice shelves that surround the place.
Later today, we look at the first and second slices, with some surprising results in terms of climate data.
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