1 - The Australian continent contains some of the most bizarre animals known to science, such as the platypus, which looks like a cross between a beaver and a duck.

2 - The Antarctic is the remotest continent in the world and the last to be discovered, but nevertheless constitutes about one tenth of the world's land surface.

3 - Around 100 to 150 million years ago, there may have been only one continent on our planet.

4 - Before the last century no humans had visited Antarctica, and even today the vast continent has a winter population of less than 200 people.

5 - According to present theories, about 250 million years ago all the continents of the earth were part of one gigantic continent, called Pangaea.