The Warming Antarctica

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2. The area of a football field is 7,140 square metres
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9. An Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long holding 2,500 cubic metres of water
10. The fictional pool would have to stretch 2,540,000 kilometres long; the earth circumference is 40,075 kilometres
11. Stephanie Au Hoi-shun’s (a Hong Kong swimmer) record speed at the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2017 50-metre backstroke is 26.95 seconds