Facts about the Scott Base

• • Robert Falcon Scott was a British Navy royal captain and the explorer of “Scott Base”.

  • The Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research facility

  • 20 January 1957; 60 years ago

  • The Scott base is located in the pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's.
  • Scott base was named after “Robert Falcon Scott”.

  

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Facts about Russell Island!!

Facts about Russell Island

Russell Island in Redland city is the biggest Southern Moreton Bay Islands, Russell was found in 1870, in 2011 the population for Russell Island use to be 2,473 (I’m not sure what’s the population of Russell for 2017?), Russell is located in the far north of New Zealand.

Russell use to be known as Kororareka, was the first permanent European settlement and seaport in New Zealand, much of the accommodation was in the area and consist on holiday homes or tourist accommodation.

Present day (Russell Island)

In this very day Russell is now mostly a “Bastion of Cafes, gift shops and B&B’s” (Bed and breakfast), a car ferry across Bay of Islands going between Okiato and Opua and also to access the main tourist to Russell Island.

There is a school in Russell called “Russell School”, Russell School is a co educational (Co educational is a school where full primary school from Year 1-8. Russell School has been opened since 1892.

Shopping

In Russell there is a small shopping village offering a variety service, there is a post office, chemist, bakery, and a single takeaway food shop in the small island. Russell Island have the same service as the main land than span across  the island.

   

Shopping village in Russell

Water pollution Facts

Water Pollution Facts

Did you know each year plastic water and coastal areas kills up to:

• 100,000 main mammals

• 1 million seabirds and
• Countless fish

The samo is the most polluted river in Europe. Featuring a nasty mix of sewage untreated agriculture wast, industrial waste and chemicals.

95% of the world’s cities still dump raw sewage into their water supplies. In one week, a typical cruise ship generates:

• 795,900 litres of sewage
• 3.8 million litres of grey water from showers sinks, dishwasher’ from showers, sinks, dishwashers, and washing machines
• 149, 230 litres of oily bilge water
• More than 8,128 kgs of solid waste and
• Toxic wastes from on board operation like dry cleaners and photo-processing bottles.

In 2004, water from half of the tested sections of China’s seven major rivers was found to be undrinkable because of pollution.

Did You Know:

The kings river is Australia's most polluted river, suffering from a severe acidic condition related to mining operations.

Also the chemicals found in on cigarette butt can leach out and contaminate approximately 7.5 litres of water within one hour. This contaminated water is lethal to small crustaceans.

Our Facts about Saturn using google drawing

This is my Facts about Saturn and why we are not aloud to live on Saturn. I was working with 2 of my friends that helped me on this work, there names are Fasi and Jerome. We all worked in a shared Doc and red some information about our text and write down.

This is FasiThis photo was taken when we were a year 3 so this is not Fasi in 2015.

 This is Jerome And Jerome is a new student that just came on October but you might see him some where around Glen Innes.