You know once upon a time how *most* modern day land was joined together to be just one peice of land mass? It was called Gondwana land.
Anyhow, New Zealand was joined against the east side of Australia (Queensland) and the Antartic peninsula was joined to a place called Slope Point in New Zealand. (Evidence comes from type of rocks on both coasts).
Well the funny thing is, back then, a few million years before things started breaking up, there was a massive forest that ranged across New Zealand, and the Antartica (wasn't ice back then) and Australia. Well, sorry, that wasn't so funny, but here comes the funny thing: The land started to break up and thus, this massive Jurassic forest broke up and went its seperate ways. Well apparently, it took a hell of a long time for the Antartic to get to where it is now (millions of years) and then *10 million years* after Antartica is settled into the place it is today, that damn forest still grew. This is a FACT, they done some radio-carbon testing and other means, by studying the fossilised forest (petrofied wood).

My question is: WTF? How the hell does a forest grow at an area that is the coldest in the world, even back then, with no sun for 3 months of the year?!