Lachie

i stole both the tincan and fun iz endangered in da class 5/6s

sorry avneil :-[:-[:-[

this iz not mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYaw5tGYAs

LAC\’S VIETNAM PROJECT

After doing the Water Saving Calculator, i found out that we use alot of water, but we also save in some areas aswell.

We saved water by:

1. Having dual flush toilets
2. Having AAA rated showerheads
3. By not having leaking toilets and taps

We can save further water by:

1. Getting a front load washing machine
2. Cutting shower time
3. Getting water tanks

Our total household water usage per week was 6,576 litres, which means because we have 5 people in our household, we each used 1,315 litres per person, per week.

“I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GREAT WAY TO SAVE WATER”

I’ve chosen my two explorers of the south pole, Roald Amundsen and Captain Robert Scott.

I chose these two explorers because Roald was the first ever to get to the south pole and back and Captain Robert Scott’s story was interesting to me.

Different agendas

In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Captain Roald Amundsen set off from their respective base camps on the Antarctic coast, each trying to reach the South Pole first. Amundsen reached it on 15 December 1911 (the date is sometimes given as 14 December – the difference being due to differing interpretations of the international date line) and returned to civilisation within three months. Scott and his four men arrived at the Pole 33 days later, on 17 January 1912, and faced an agonising struggle to get back to base camp. They all perished. Exactly why Amundsen’s team completed the return journey with comparative ease and Scott’s party died has been the source of fierce debate ever since.

CAPTAIN ROALD AMUNDSEN 

Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway took pride in being referred to as “the last of the Vikings.” A powerfully built man of over six feet in height, Amundsen was born into a family of merchant sea captains and prosperous ship owners in 1872. As a youth he insisted on sleeping with the windows open even during the frigid Norwegian winters to help condition himself for a life of polar exploration. Amundsen developed a fascination with Antarctica from the time he first glimpsed its frozen terrain in 1897. Antarctica, a continent the size of Europe and Australia combined, had not yet been traversed by humans. Amundsen aimed to be the first.

In 1897 he took part in a Belgian expedition that was the first to winter in the Antarctic. In 1903 – 05 he was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage. He planned an expedition to the North Pole, but, after learning that Robert E. Peary had reached that goal, he set off for the South Pole in 1910. He prepared his trip carefully and in October 1911 set out with four men, 52 dogs, and four sledges. He reached the South Pole in December 1911, one month before Robert Falcon Scott‘s ill-fated attempt. He returned to Norway and established a successful shipping business. In 1926 he and Umberto Nobile (1885 – 1978) passed over the North Pole in a dirigible. Amundsen disappeared in 1928 while flying to rescue Nobile from a dirigible crash.

 CAPTAIN ROBERT SCOTT

Britain’s hero of the Antarctic, the life of Robert Scott remains one of the greatest exploration legends of the modern age. Having gone to sea at the age of thirteen, Scott was already an accomplished mariner when Sir Clements Markham, the former polar explorer and then president of the Royal Geographical Society, asked him to undertake an exploration of the frozen Antarctic continent in 1900. That exploration saw Scott reaching the furthest southern point to date, though he was still well shy of the South Pole. Inspired to reach this elusive, and dangerous, point on the map, Scott set out in 1912 along with five members of his polar-exploration team. Upon reaching their icy goal, Scott and his men were dismayed when they discovered that the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, had reached the South Pole a month before.
Though Amundsen returned to his base camp without incident, Scott and his men were not so lucky. Emotionally crushed by their defeat, the English explorers set off to journey back to safety, never knowing that they were about to endure icy conditions so harsh that they were only duplicated once during the ensuing twentieth century. Two men died en route, while Scott and his companions lost their lives eleven miles away from safety. When discovered, the explorer’s diary recorded his last thoughts.  “Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.”

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH:

Roald Amundsen arrived at Antartica aboard the polarship called Fram, while Robert Scott made the trip on the Terra Nova. Before embarking on their 750-mile trip to the South Pole. Amundsen and Scott each spent about 10 months at separate base camps in Antarctica, with 3 months of no sun. Amundsen and his crew ate the following, which led to well-nourished bodies to begin their trek:

• butter on whole wheat bread enriched with wheat germ
• whole wheat hotcakes covered in preserved cloudberries & whortleberries (see photos below)
• underdone fresh or deep-frozen seal meat (undercooking destroys only small amounts of the vitamin C in raw meat) served daily and covered with whortleberry preserves

WHORTLEBERRY- AMUNDSEN’S CHOICE

 Scott and his men had a diet at their base camp which consisted of:

• white bread and butter
• canned food (canning in those days destroyed far more nutrients than canning methods of today)
• seal meat overdone and not served daily

Nutrients were estimated to be the following:

 For me, after doing this project, i think that the main reason Amudsen survived over Scott was that he was much more organised with the transport and choice of food.

 Scotts team also lost motivation after making it to the South Pole and realising Amundsen had already discovered it.