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[antarctica]

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

geographical area, continent, traditional continent, geological continent, continent
Population
0
Area
14,000,000 square kilometres
Births
Robert Falcon Scott, Emilio Palma, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Frank Wild, Raymond Priestley,  …
Origin of
Nunatak
Movies
Ice People
Location
Earth, the world, the southern hemisphere
Location of
the Cold War; The South Pole; Bouvet Island; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Mount Erebus;  …
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
Closest Airport
Troll airfield
Deaths
Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Lawrence Oates, Edward Adrian Wilson, Edgar Evans,  …
Coordinates
90°00'00"S, 0°00'00"E
Overlaps
Transantarctic Mountains, Mount Terror, Enderby Land, Dome A, Dome F,  …
Nearest Settlement of
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Palmer Station, Don Juan Pond, Lake Vanda, Williams Field,  …
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
Lake Vostok, Don Juan Pond, Lake Vanda, Lake Fryxell, Sovetskaya,  …
ISO Code
"AQ"
Often Found
penguin, Blue Whale, moss, emperor penguin, Great Auk,  …
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
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