The passage is "the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe," Alfred Lansing wrote ... cuts off warm air that would otherwise blow south from South America. Research suggests that when the Drake ...

Most of South America lies within the tropics. Discuss with pupils what the term tropical means and find the tropics on a globe. Explain that the tropics is an area of the world that can be found ...

South America, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica. Although I love my globe, it’s a bit awkward to carry around. Instead, it’s much easier to use a map or a book of maps called an atlas. An atlas ...