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Review Of Jennifer Armstrong's Novel 'Shipwreck At The Bottom Of The World'

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You might be wondering what some of the obstacles the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition might of had to deal with, one of many obstacles was the extreme weather of the antarctic. Jennifer Armstrong author of the novel Shipwreck at the bottom of the world speaks of this in her novel. The ice never melts; it clings to the bottom of the world, spawning winds, storms, and weather that affects the whole planet. And of all the weather it creates, the weather the Antarctic creates for itself is by far the worst. In the winter, the temperature can sink to 100 degrees below fahrenheit. Cold air masses sliding down the sides of the glaciers speed up until they become winds of close to 200 miles per hour. When winter descends on the southern continent,

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