How old is Antartica?
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Part of Panorama
- Title
- How old is Antartica?
- Creator
- UNESCO
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1961
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- Fulltext
- the rapid increase in member ship in the United Nations provides the communist bloc with a better opportunity. By blackmail and extortion, the Soviet bloc has succeeded in having the puppet Outer Mon golia admitted into the United Nations. Encouraged by this appeasement, the Soviet block’s next step will surely be an intensified campaign to bring the puppet Peiping re gime into that world organi zation. For the sake of the security of the free world, the logical question is whether one can afford to get rid of a loyal front-door guard and admit into his household a gangster with the avowed in tention to destroy it. The fate of the free world is now seriously at stake. Whether the United Nations will still function as an arbit er of justice and guardian of peace, or simply as a broker to portion out appeasement which will eventually lead to world catastrophe depends upon the outcome of the pre sent issue. At this criticaT mo ment, the firm support given us by the Philippine govern ment and its people is espe cially a source of great en couragement in the belief that our closest neighbor is wholeheartedly with us in waging this gigantic struggle against world enslavement. It is this spirit of solidarity which gives me faith that the free world in spite of some ominous portents will yet van quish its foe! HOW OLD IS ANTARTICA? Numerous samples of rock collected from the eastern coastal regions of the Antartic continent have been subjected to radioactivity tests by So viet scientists to find out their approximate age. According to the scientists, rocks from the cen ter of Eastern Antarctica proved to be the oldest among samples tested, having been formed 1,350,000,000 and 1,840,000,000 years ago. Further analysis of rock specimens, the scientists believe, may show that parts of the continent are more than 2,000,000,000 years old. (UNESCO) December 1961 37