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  Antarctica - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Antarctica is the southernmost continent and encompasses the South Pole.
Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and divided by the Transantarctic Mountains.
Glaciologists in Antarctica are concerned with the study of the history and dynamics of floating ice, seasonal snow, glaciers, and ice sheets.
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 Antarctica Encyclopedia Article @ LakeLocale.com (Lake Locale)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
Antarctica is the southernmost continent and includes the South Pole.
At 14.425 million km², Antarctica is the third-smallest continent after Europe and Australia; 98% of it is covered in ice.
Antarctica has no permanent residents, but a number of governments maintain permanent research stations throughout the continent.
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 Antarctica - Crystalinks
Antarctica is home to more than 70 lakes that lie thousands of metres under the surface of the continental ice sheet.
The first settlers of Antarctica (the world region situated south of the Antarctic Convergence) were English and American sealers who used to spend a year or more on South Georgia, from 1786 onward.
Meteorites from Antarctica are a relatively recent resource for study of the material formed early in the solar system; most are thought to come from asteroids, but some may have originated on larger planets.
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 Antarctica ecozone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antarctica is also home to a diversity of animal life, including penguins, seals, and whales.
Several Antarctic island groups are considered part of the Antarctica ecozone, including South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, the South Shetland Islands, Bouvet Island, the Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, Heard Island, the Kerguelen Islands, and the McDonald Islands.
Millions of years ago, Antarctica was warmer and wetter, and supported the Antarctic flora, including forests of podocarps and southern beech.
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 Antarctica - Enpsychlopedia
Image:Europe antarctica size.png The continent of Antarctica is located mostly south of the Antarctic Circle, surrounded by the Southern Ocean.
Image:AntarcticaRockSurface.jpg The geological study of Antarctica has been greatly hindered by the fact that nearly all of the continent is permanently covered with a thick layer of ice.
Geologically, West Antarctica closely resembles the Andes of South America.> The Antarctic Peninsula was formed by uplift and metamorphism of sea-bed sediments during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic eras.
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Katabatic winds off the polar plateau often blow at storm force at the continent\'s edges; heavy snowfalls are not uncommon on the coasts, and snowfalls of up to 1.22 meters (48 inches) in 48 hours have been recorded.
Note that eastern Antarctica is colder than its western counterpart because of its higher elevation.
Antarctica exhibits the southern counterpart to the aurora borealis: the aurora australis.
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 Antarctica Encyclopedia Article @ Embarked.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
It's not everyone who dreams about spending two months in Antarctica in temperatures of -20 to -600 Celsius while travelling more than a thousand kilometres...
Big Bang in Antarctica -- Killer Crater Found Under Ice.
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