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located on the Antarctic Plate or south of the Antarctic Convergence. The Antarctic region includes the ice shelves, waters, and all the island territories...24 KB (3,832 words) - 16:54, 20 November 2024
grounded ice sheet. Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America, is about 1,000 km (620 miles) away across the Drake Passage. The Antarctic Peninsula...49 KB (5,766 words) - 06:34, 11 November 2024
The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square...36 KB (10,032 words) - 17:48, 24 September 2024
Antarctic sea ice is the sea ice of the Southern Ocean. It extends from the far north in the winter and retreats to almost the coastline every summer....16 KB (1,818 words) - 09:22, 2 August 2024
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of...75 KB (8,871 words) - 00:37, 15 October 2024
Mount Takahe (category Lists of coordinates)underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are probably even larger. It is part of the West Antarctic Rift System along with 18 other known volcanoes. The volcano...53 KB (5,474 words) - 11:08, 3 November 2024
and the Strait of Magellan. It also includes the Antarctic territory claimed by Chile. Despite its large area, much of the land in the region is rugged...21 KB (1,693 words) - 13:25, 25 October 2024
overlapped by the Antarctic claims of Argentina (Argentine Antarctica) and Chile (Chilean Antarctic Territory). The claim to the region has been suspended...24 KB (2,323 words) - 22:18, 5 November 2024
In 1947, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names applied the name "Ross Shelf Ice" to this feature and published it in the original U.S. Antarctic Gazetteer...22 KB (2,663 words) - 03:10, 25 July 2024
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape...28 KB (2,911 words) - 08:16, 14 November 2024
Subantarctic (redirect from Sub-Antarctic)The subantarctic zone is a region in the Southern Hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region. This translates roughly to a latitude...44 KB (3,392 words) - 18:33, 18 November 2024
Antarctica (redirect from The Antarctic)covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi). Antarctica is, on average, the coldest, driest, and windiest of the continents...145 KB (15,709 words) - 06:56, 23 November 2024
current ice age or icehouse period. Its beginning is marked by the formation of the Antarctic ice sheets. Six million years after the start of the Late Cenozoic...29 KB (2,962 words) - 10:56, 28 September 2024
ANSMET (redirect from ANtarctic Search for METeorites)across the Antarctic continent while embedded in a vast sheet of flowing ice. Portions of such flowing ice can be halted by natural barriers such as the Transantarctic...10 KB (1,030 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2024
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic...38 KB (4,633 words) - 20:43, 20 September 2024
(19,000 sq mi). The only current ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet. Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or alpine...55 KB (11,580 words) - 22:32, 14 October 2024
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere...23 KB (2,657 words) - 14:09, 13 November 2024
Chile. It comprises the region south of 60°S latitude and between longitudes 53°W and 90°W, partially overlapping the Antarctic claims of Argentina (Argentine...53 KB (6,000 words) - 21:14, 22 November 2024
A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice. There are no requirements...13 KB (1,512 words) - 02:08, 5 August 2024
80°S 60°E / 80°S 60°E / -80; 60 The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally. It was first formed around 34...40 KB (4,344 words) - 06:05, 3 October 2024
- Knowledge of the Antarctic Regions by Angelo Heilprin 1235345Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 January 1897 — Our Present Knowledge of the Antarctic Regions1897Angelo
- The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean (which overlies the North Pole) and
- periods of time documenting the expansion of the Antarctic sea ice during the late Miocene Epoch. His enthusiasm got the attention of his mentors and instructors