Discuss population of antartica
Answers
Explanation:
Area 14,200,000 km² 5,500,000 sq mi
Population 1,000 to 5,000 (seasonal)
Population density <0.01 per km² <0.01 per sq mi
Demonym Antarctic
Internet TLD .aq
Answer:
The continent was once a part of a larger land mass called Gondwanaland that settled over the south pole and split from Australasia and South America long before humans evolved. There haven't been any land bridges to Antarctica for around 35 million years, it has been an isolated island for all this time.
Humans are thought to have evolved in East Africa very recently in geological terms (no more than 5 million years at most). We then left the ancestral homeland and moved across all of the continents of the world.
Antarctica was already too isolated by distance, climate and the storminess of its seas for primitive peoples to discover. It wasn't until 1820 when human technology and navigation was sophisticated enough to allow anyone to sail far enough south to even see Antarctica for the first time. There are a number of poorly substantiated claims of setting foot upon the Antarctic mainland from 1820, though 1899 is the first date accepted by some historians as undisputable. When the first people did set foot on Antarctica there wasn't anyone already there.
Antarctica is therefore one of the few places in the world that can truly be described as having been discovered, rather than there being people already living there who had known about it for hundreds or thousands of years before its "discovery".
Hope it helps you!
Please mark me as brainliest.