- Antarctica - Wikipedia
Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km 2 (5,500,000 sq mi)
- Antarctica | History, Map, Climate, Facts | Britannica
The southernmost parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans meet the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean, the cold oceanic water mass below 60° S with unique biological and physical characteristics
- What Is Antarctica? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Antarctica is Earth's fifth largest continent Image credit: NASA What is Antarctica like? Pack your snowshoes, hat, gloves, and the puffiest jacket you have – because Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth! The average temperature in Antarctica in the winter is minus 34 4 Celsius (minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit)
- What Is Antarctica? A Desert, Country, Continent. . . ?
In this guide, we serve up a cliff-notes sort of sketch of the White Continent (as Antarctica’s often called), and also provide a slew of links to more in-depth articles on specific topics, from geography and ecology to Antarctica’s unique management and human footprint
- Research stations in Antarctica - Wikipedia
Unlike the drifting ice stations set up in the Arctic, the current research stations of the Antarctic are constructed either on rocks or on ice that are (for practical purposes) fixed in place Many of these stations are staffed throughout the year
- Antarctica - Exploration, Wildlife, Ice | Britannica
During the first two decades of the 20th century, commonly called the “heroic era” of Antarctic exploration, great advances were made in not only geographic but also scientific knowledge of the continent
- How Global Warming Is Affecting Antarctica - Biology Insights
Antarctica, holding approximately 90 percent of the world’s ice, is a significant part of the global climate system Its ice sheets and surrounding ocean are interconnected with Earth’s atmospheric patterns, making the region highly sensitive to changes in global temperature
- Antarctica - Ice, Wildlife, Continent | Britannica
Antarctica became isolated with the opening of the Drake Passage between the continent and South America sometime between 49 million and 17 million years ago, a time when land mammals diversified and flourished elsewhere, populating all the other continents of the world
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