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Antarctica
[ ant-ahrk-ti-kuh, -ahr-ti- ]
noun
- the continent surrounding the South Pole: almost entirely covered by an ice sheet. About 5,000,000 sq. mi. (12,950,000 sq. km).
Antarctica
/ æntˈɑːktɪkə /
noun
- a continent around the South Pole: consists of an ice-covered plateau, 1800–3000 m (6000 ft to 10 000 ft) above sea level, and mountain ranges rising to 4500 m (15 000 ft) with some volcanic peaks; average temperatures all below freezing and human settlement is confined to research stations. All political claims to the mainland are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
Antarctica
- Continent surrounding the South Pole , located almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle . It is covered by an ice cap up to thirteen thousand feet thick.
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Michael Clinton, president of marketing at Hearst, just ran a marathon in Antarctica.
Another, Autosub-2, was trapped as it explored life beneath permanent ice shelves around Antarctica in 2005.
They went AWOL all around the world—from the waters around Antarctica to just off a Japanese Island—for a host of reasons.
Let's hope he didn't get frostbite - here's the science of getting naked in antarctica.
On December 6, Liautaud and his teammate Doug Stoup, set off from Antarctica on a 640-kilometer ski journey to the South Pole.
Do you mean that everyone who's been arrested is here, in Antarctica?
Antarctica is isolated enough to keep that knowledge secret for a long time—at least until safeguards could be set up.
At its best, it has the continent of Antarctica beat four thousand ways from a week ago last Candlemas.
"I can't very well find a cave in Antarctica and hide," I replied glumly.
They often attain a velocity of eighty miles an hour in Antarctica and Greenland.
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