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1 dzień temu · Antarctica, the world’s southernmost and fifth largest continent. Its landmass is almost wholly covered by a vast ice sheet. The Transantarctic Mountains, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Often described as a continent of superlatives, Antarctica is not only the world’s southernmost continent.
- Discovery of The Antarctic Poles
Antarctica - Exploration, Ice, Wildlife: National and...
- Economic Resources
Antarctica - Resources, Wildlife, Climate: The search for...
- Physical Geography
Antarctica became isolated with the opening of the Drake...
- Glaciers and Seas
Antarctica - Glaciers, Seas, Ice: Antarctica provides the...
- The Antarctic Treaty
Antarctica - Treaty, Continent, Wildlife: With the ending of...
- Plant Life
Antarctica - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: The cold desert...
- History
Antarctica - Exploration, Wildlife, Ice: Many nations were...
- Climate
Antarctica - Polar, Ice, Climate: The unique weather and...
- Discovery of The Antarctic Poles
1 dzień temu · Positioned asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle (one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the world), Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. Rivers exist in Antarctica; the longest is the Onyx.
5 dni temu · 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.
4 dni temu · Sometimes a single map offers all these insights at once. To look at a historical map is to step into the past; to look at an old map is also to see the world as it would have been seen by the elites, the government, the military, or the navigators of the day.
4 dni temu · Download the Antarctica map in various designs and colors, including a blank outline map for coloring and a map showing the countries that claim territory on the continent. You can download the same images in PDF format for printing using the download button.
2 dni temu · Between 1946 and 2000, United States Navy cartographers flew over almost every corner of Antarctica, recording 330,000 high-quality, large-format film photographs in an effort to map the continent.
1 dzień temu · Antarctica - Glaciers, Seas, Ice: Antarctica provides the best available picture of the probable appearance 20,000 years ago of northern North America under the great Laurentide Ice Sheet.
