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A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on January 27, 2019 and January 27, 2020.

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I suggest adding some short information about Emil Racoviță ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Racoviță ) as he was the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life. He was a biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and important explorer of Antarctica. He arrived to Antarctica aboard the Belgica ship. This information could be added at the "History of Exploration" section.

I would edit it myself but I do not yet meet the criteria to be able to edit protected articles. Thanks. JohnHawan89 (talk) 11:33, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Could you point to any general books about Antartica that mention Racoviță and his contributions? I notice that his article has very few sources. – Thjarkur (talk) 11:43, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FA review needed

This article is badly in need of a featured article review:

the article contains many uncited paragraphs
the article contains trivia: for instance the year the father of the first child born near Antarctica against British citizenship
the article is in need of updating. Specifically, all the sections to do with climate change and the ozone hole need updating. Last years IPCC report about climate change in polar regions is not cited once
The science of different papers need to be integrated. Instead, there is prose like "A single 2015 study by H. Jay Zwally et al."

I may be tempted to update and rewrite the sections pertaining to climate change. Femke Nijsse (talk) 09:34, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Throwing a reference into the ring

I'm not following this up. Do as you will. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article659215 jayoval (talk) 06:02, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Meteorites

I'm wondering whether the meteorite section should be incorporated into geology completely? I think the research section should only be about research stations, and what types of topics are interesting to be studied from an article. The results of studies into Antarctica should be in their respective sections. I'm not sure whether these meteorites are all due in this article.. Femke Nijsse (talk) 19:55, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Potential Featured article review due to problems

This is a featured article with multiple citation needed-tags. I have also seen some completely unreferenced paragraphs. If this issue is not addressed then I will have to nominate this for a review. Wretchskull (talk) 21:00, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sea level rise

According to http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/question/ice-antarctica-melt-much-global-sea-level-rise-quickly-likely-happen/ global sea levels would rise 63 meters if all Antarctic ice melted, 60 meters being from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.