Contemporary Geographical Issues

1) Arctic Icecap Feeling the Heat
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2) Arctic icecap would come first because it would affect everything globally, from climates to sea levels. The Sydney Harbour and The Homebush toxic waste cannot be ordered as they are both of significance and is around the Sydney metropolitan area.

3. i) a) Arctic Icecap Feeling the Heat

b) The North Pole is melting for the first time in 55 million years. Researchers have found the icecap has turned into a 1.6km wide patch of open ocean. The meltdown has been linked with (100) the greenhouse effect. The average thickness of the icecap is about 3m, but this year there were no ice to land on. The last time this happened was in the Eocene period, 55 million years ago, when the climate at the poles became warmer enough for tropical vegetation and animals to flourish.

c) This issue is of geographical significance as the polar icecaps are an impor...