[antarctica]

[antarctica]

antarctica (the icy southern continent that encompasses the south pole)

Population

0

Area

14,000,000 square kilometres

Births

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Robert Falcon Scott, Emilio Palma, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Frank Wild, Raymond Priestley,  …

Robert Forde, Pablo Camacho, Leland Curtis, Juan Pablo Camacho

Origin of

Nunatak

Movies

Ice People

Location

Earth, the world, the southern hemisphere

Location of

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the Cold War; The South Pole; Bouvet Island; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Mount Erebus;  …

Lake Vostok; Heard and McDonald Islands; Blood Falls; Vinson Massif; the French Southern and Antarctic Lands; Gamburtsev Mountain Range; Queen Maud Land; Vostok Station; Peter I Island; Deception Island; The Penguins; Antarctic ice sheet; Trinity Church, Antarctica; Mawson Peak; British Antarctic Survey; Religion in Antarctica; Palmer Station; Rothera Research Station; Don Juan Pond; Onyx River; Lake Vanda; Williams Field; Erebus Ice Tongue; Alph River; Mount Sidley; Lake Fryxell; Beardmore Glacier; Lambert Glacier; Lake Untersee; Lake Vida; Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva; Ellsworth Mountains; Marambio Base; Lake Bonney; blue ice runway; Hudson Mountains; Penguin Island; Patriot Hills; Lake Ellsworth; Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme; Mount Tyree; Intrusion Lake; Paulet Island; Sovetskaya; 90 Degrees East; Queen Maud Mountains; Mount Kirkpatrick; Tangra Mountains; Anzac Peak; Mount Siple; Pensacola Mountains; Wilkins Runway; St. Ivan Rilski Chapel; Sentinel Range; Mount Discovery; Brunt Ice Shelf; Mount Kirkpatrick Formation; Mount Bird; Prince Charles Mountains; Troll airfield; Mount Sisu; Terra Nova Bay; Plateau Station; Ice Runway; Lake Hoare; East Antarctica Ranges; Queen Alexandra Range; Pyramid Mountain; Horlick Mountains; Amundsen Glacier; Bunger Hills; Thiel Mountains; Gaussberg; Nimrod Glacier; Mount Overlord; Mount McClintock; Shackleton Range; Minnesota Glacier; Mount Atlas; Lars Christensen Peak; Humboldt Mountains; Mount Craddock; Mount Herschel; Ablation Lake; Pegasus Field; Darwin Mountains; Mertz Glacier; Prince Olav Mountains; Aker Peaks; Kraul Mountains; Mount Josephine; Mount Albert Markham; Skelton Glacier; Newman Nunataks; Mount Field; Mount Joyce; Island Lake; Shibuya Peak; Getz Ice Shelf; Lake Profound; Yamato Glacier; Mount Fridtjof Nansen; Lake Brownworth; Rumdoodle Peak; Pavie Ridge; Imeon Range; Mount Elkins; Hughes Range; Mount Minto; Lake Chad; Amphitheatre Lake; Midge Lake; Basalt Lake; Mount Haddington; Braunsteffer Lake; Terrace Lake; Drygalski Mountains; Koettlitz Glacier; Orwell Lake; Bothy Lake; Amos Lake; Mount Nansen; Lake Boeckella; Asemus Beach; Kladara Beach; Liverpool Beach; Mikre Beach; Coleman Glacier; Bullseye Lake; Lake Bull; Balham Lake; Block Lake; Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway SCGC; Light Lake; Lee Lake; Rum Pond; Lancetes Lake; Lake Vashka; Lake Vereteno; Victoria Upper Lake; Vincent Creek; Lyell Lake; Relict Lake; Wohlthat Mountains; Lake Thomas; Lake Kamome; Hourglass Lake; Lake Hope; Spirogyra Lake; Sombre Lake; Smith Lake; Slalom Lake; Skua Lake; Secret Lake; Starr Lake; Salmon Stream; Sbrosovoye Lake; Scheuren Stream; Maria Creek; Lake Kitezh; Twisted Lake; Humic Lake; Heywood Lake; Howchin South Stream; Howchin Lake; Howchin North Stream; Lake Minami; Hamberg Lakes; Lake Miers; Moutonnee Lake; Moss Lake; Lake Morning; Gorgon Pool; Gneiss Lake; Lake Garwood; Gadarene Lake; Fox Ice Stream; Algae Lake; Algal Lake; Forlidas Pond; Fitzgerald Stream; Parochlus Lake; Fan Lake; Lake Eggers; Ebon Pond; Lake Pewe; Penny Lake; Lake Porkchop; Pony Lake; Podprudnoye Lake; Pumphouse Lake; Don Quixote Pond; Pyramid Trough; Tranquil Lake; Gull Lake

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

Closest Airport

Troll airfield

Deaths

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Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Lawrence Oates, Edward Adrian Wilson, Edgar Evans,  …

Henry Robinson Bowers, Aeneas Mackintosh, Carl Anton Larsen, Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, Arnold Spencer-Smith, Peter Mulgrew, Kevin Walton, Leland Curtis

Coordinates

90°00'00"S, 0°00'00"E

Overlaps

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Transantarctic Mountains, Mount Terror, Enderby Land, Dome A, Dome F,  …

Mount Melbourne, Mount Berlin, Mount Andrus, Mount Markham, Mount Moulton, Mount Hampton, Admiralty Mountains, Mount Morning, Mount Menzies, Brown Bluff, Brown Peak, Ohio Range, Mount Waesche, Royal Society Range, Seal Nunataks Volcano, Bridgeman Island, Mount Steere, Millen Range, Kohler Range, Mount Frakes, Mount Takahe, Achaean Range, Mount Sellery, Crary Mountains, Toney Mountain, Mount Black Prince, Convoy Range, Pleiades, Asgard Range, Mount Argus, Arkhangel'skiy Nunataks, Bode Nunataks, Bryse Peaks, Somers Nunatak, Sutley Peak, Mount Boda, Amphitheatre Peaks, Needle Peak, Guardian Nunatak, Mount Kammuri, Mount Karpinskiy, Mount Minami-heito, Mount Neustruyev, Stabben Mountain, Zhelannaya Mountain, Ytstenut Peak, Vorposten Peak, Isachsen Mountain, Mount Elliot, Mount Hope, Mount Ashworth, Mount Belolikov, Bon Docteur Nunatak, Butler Peaks, Nicholas Range, Gilchrist Aiguilles, Mount Andree, Dwyer Nunataks, Kjuklingen Nunatak, Larkman Nunatak, Mount Block, Mount Bumstead, Duncan Mountains, Sculpture Mountain, Gadsden Peaks, Mount Brazil, Mount Von Braun, Mount Bouvier, Mount Barre, Mount Bodys, Bond Nunatak, Mount Gudmundson, Mulgrew Nunatak, Haupt Nunatak, Mount Boyd, Mount Schlossbach, Three Nunataks, Mount Aldrich, Beale Peak, Mount Dowling, Mount Gimber, Mount Letten, Mount Ryder, Mount Paish, Litke Nunatak, Burch Peaks, Mount Nils, Brusilov Nunataks, Mount Bergin, Mount Bartlett, Mount Send, Mount Storegutt, Doggers Nunataks, Mount Zeppelin, Butler Nunataks, Bypass Nunatak, Williams Nunatak, Tempest Peak, Mount Falla, Mount Rummage, Mount Harrison, Bystander Nunatak, Burris Nunatak, Mount Bresnahan, Mount Alford, Mount Gillmor, Mount Arcone, Mount Hofmann, Mount Allsup, Horseshoe Nunatak, Fraser Nunatak, Bengaard Peak, Pirámide Peak, Binn Peak, Gabriel Hill, Silverstein Peak, Fukushima Peak, Bender Glacier, Severinghaus Glacier, Mount Inderbitzen, Mount Liptak, Kea Nunataks, Slattery Peak, Manahan Peak, Kienle Nunataks, Barker Peak, St. Cyril Peak, Veleka Ridge, Simeon Peak, St. Boris Peak, Mount Friesland, Aheloy Nunatak, Svelten Peak, Snow Peak, Moores Peak, Napier Peak, Mirador Hill, Mount Reina Sofía, La Morenita, MacGregor Peaks, Castillo Nunatak, Casanovas Peak, Charrúa Ridge, Baliza Hill

Nearest Settlement of

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Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Palmer Station, Don Juan Pond, Lake Vanda, Williams Field,  …

Lake Fryxell, Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, Marambio Base, Lake Bonney, Patriot Hills, Sovetskaya, 90 Degrees East, Wilkins Runway, Plateau Station, Ice Runway, Lake Hoare, Pegasus Field, Lake Profound, Lake Lagernoye, Alph Lake, Lake Priyadarshini

Residents

Emilio Palma

The Area Served By

A Rocha, Hurtigruten Group, Bongotones.com

Mouth of

Onyx River

Class

continent, traditional continent, geological continent, continent, geographical area

In the Basin of

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Lake Vostok, Don Juan Pond, Lake Vanda, Lake Fryxell, Sovetskaya,  …

90 Degrees East, Island Lake, Lake Chad, Lake Jabs, Zub Lake, Zapadnoye Lake, Yale Tarn, Simmons Lake, Princeton Tarn, Prilednikovoye Lake, Jackson Pond, Sea Lion Tarn

ISO Code

"AQ"

Often Found

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penguin, Blue Whale, moss, emperor penguin, Great Auk,  …

Orca, Leopard Seal, adélie penguin, Marchantiophyta, Antarctic krill, Southern Elephant Seal, rockhopper penguin, Lystrosaurus, Weddell Seal, Glossopteris, megaherb, Crabeater Seal, Cynognathus, Nothofagus, Antarctic Fur Seal, Thrinaxodon, Snow Petrel, Hourglass Dolphin, Notothenioidei, Microbiotheria, Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi, Deschampsia antarctica, Belgica antarctica, Kannemeyeria, Colobanthus quitensis, Antarctic cod, Coelacanthus, Osteolepis, Gondwanatheria, Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, Australodelphis, Antarctic silverfish, Scenella, Aristonectes, Terebratula, Bald notothen, Archaeospheniscus lopdelli, Micraster, Parotosuchus, Polarornis, Oxytoma, Acanthodiscus, Whiteavesia, Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, Rabidosaurus, Anthropornis, Neithea, Branchinecta gaini, Hourglass dolphin, Dicranoweisia crispula, Ceratoserolis meridionalis, Sarconeurum glaciale, Schistidium antarctici, Pottia heimii, Grimmia antarctici, Didymodon gelidus, Andreaea gainii, Andreaea regularis, Andreaea depressinervis, Astronesthes sp., Hibolithes, Kingena, Ogygopsis, Archaeospheniscus wimani

Terrain Types

ice sheet

Visited by

Edmund Hillary, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Jerri Nielsen

CIA World Factbook URI

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/factbook/resource/Antarctica

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Antarctica

Latitude North

the Pacific Ocean, South America