Across
- 4. remote, sparsely settled, arid, rural country in the central and western plains of Australia
- 5. Territories: territories supervised by other nations
- 8. Zone: the area where the frigid waters around Antarctica meet the warmer waters of the Atlantic
Down
- 1. Ice: floating sea ice formed by a mix of icebergs with other ice formed in super chilled ocean waters
- 2. an original inhabitant
- 3. Well: a well that is drilled deep enough to tap a layer of porous material filled with groundwater
- 6. Shelves: deeply frozen ice sheets that slowly extend over the ocean
- 7. small shrimp-like creatures
- 9. large cracks in polar ice