Image Plates tect2 en.svg thumb right 300px legend 90A0C0 border 1px solid 000 2 The Antarcticplate, shown in blue The AntarcticPlate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Antarctica and extending outward under the surrounding ocean s. The AntarcticPlate has a boundary with the Nazca Plate , the South American Plate , the African Plate , the Indo Australian Plate , the Scotia Plate and a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Pacific Antarctic Ridge . The Antarcticplate is roughly 60,900,000 square kilometers. ref http www.ees1.lanl.gov Wohletz SFT Tectonics.htm SFT and the Earth s Tectonic Plates ref It is the fifth biggest plate in the world. The Antarcticplate movement is estimated at least 1 centimeter per year towards the Atlantic Ocean . Citation needed date September 2010 References Reflist Tectonic plates Category Tectonic plates Category Geology of Antarctica Category Geology of Chile Category Geology of the Pacific Ocean Category Geology of the Indian Ocean Category Geology of the Southern Ocean tectonics stub ca Placa ant rtica cs Antarktick deska de Antarktische Platte et Antarktika laam es Placa Ant rtica eu Antartikako plaka fr Plaque antarctique gl Placa ant rtica ko hi hr Antarkti ka plo a it Placca antartica he lt Antarktidos plok t nl Antarctische Plaat ja pl P yta antarktyczna pt Placa da Ant rtica ru sk Antarktick plat a sh Antarkti ka plo a fi Antarktiksen laatta uk vi M ng Nam C c zh ... more details
for the ship Antarctic ship Image Antarctica Region.png thumb right Antarctic Image SPSM.05.jpg thumb ... Grytviken museum.jpg thumb right Grytviken Museum in South Georgia . The Antarctic IPAc en icon ... around the Earth s South Pole , opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole . The Antarctic ... in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence . ref http www.scar.org Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR ref The region covers some 20 of the Southern Hemisphere , of which ... of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR , where for technical reasons the Convention ... pu e e pubs bd pt1.pdf Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ... inspectors on the fishing vessels, as well as satellite surveillance. Most of the Antarctic region ... legal regime of the Antarctic Treaty System . ref http www.nsf.gov od opp antarct anttrty.jsp Antarctic ... to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective convert 200 nmi ... in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands , Isla de los Estados , Hornos ... and thus outside the Antarctic region. Society The first Antarctic land discovered was the island ... of England English merchant Anthony de la Roch in 1675. The first human born in the Antarctic was Solveig Gunbj rg Jacobsen born on 8 October 1913 in Grytviken , South Georgia. The Antarctic region ..., the most popular destinations being the Antarctic Peninsula area especially the South Shetland ... by experts from signatories to the Antarctic Treaty . The definitive results of the conference would be presented at the Antarctic Treaty states meeting in Uruguay in May 2010. ref http www.680news.com news world article 5976 Antarctic Nations Considering New Controls On Ships Amid Tourism Explosion. Ray Lilley, The Associated Press, December 8, 2009. ref See also Antarctic Circle Antarctic Convergence Antarctica Antarctic Hello Sir Records, North Florida Indie Instrumental Band Islands South ... more details
wiktionary Plate may refer to Plate dishware , a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food is served Silver household or the plate, dishware and cutlery made of sterling, Britannia or Sheffield plate silver Plating , the deposition of metallic layers In science Plate electrode or plate, a type of electrode that formed part of a vacuum tube Plate, a physical approximation of a theoretical plate in separation processes Plate, an appendage of the Stegosauria Paleobiology Stegosauria Tectonic plate in geology In two dimensional media Photographic plate , an image capture medium Plate, an intaglio printmaking intaglio printing mechanism Plate, a printing mechanism in lithography Plate, a term in book design, meaning an image added on a separate page. This is derived from the lithographic use, where such images were printed separately then bound into the book in groups. In other uses Plate surname Plate, Germany , a municipality in Parchim, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany Plate metal , rectangular metal stock that is more than 6 mm or 0.25 in thick To plate, to food presentation present food on a plate See also River Plate disambiguation Vehicle registration platePlate armour , body armor made of metal plates Plate theory , a continuum mechanics theory to explain thin solids Home plate Tourelle de la Plate , a lighthouse in France, Wall plate , vertical building construction component Dynamic compression plate , a metallic plate used in orthopedics for internal fixation of bone disambig de Plate Begriffskl rung fr Plate ja pt Plate ru sr vi M ng ... more details
Antarctic Beech is a common name of two species in the genus Nothofagus Nothofagus antarctica in South America Nothofagus moorei in Australia disambig ... more details
Antarctic Sound is a body of water about convert 30 mi 1 long and from convert 7 to 12 mi 0 wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula . The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenski ld for the expedition ship Antarctic ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command of Carl Anton Larsen , was the first vessel to navigate it. Commons category Sounds of Antarctica References usgs gazetteer id 492 Coord 63 20 S 056 45 W scale 1000000 display title Category Sounds of Graham Land Category Landforms of Trinity Peninsula Category Landforms of the Joinville Island group TrinityPeninsula geo stub de Antarctic Sund fr D troit Antarctic ja ... more details
Image Antarctic Bay.PNG thumb 300px right Antarctic Bay location Antarctic Bay is a bay convert 1 mi wide which recedes southwest convert 4 mi 0 , entered between Antarctic Point and Morse Point on the north coast of South Georgia . It was probably first sighted by a British expedition under James Cook in 1775, and was explored in 1902 by members of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition , under Otto Nordenski ld , who named it for their ship, the Antarctic ship Antarctic . An alternative defunct name for it was Woodward Harbour Mount Woodward is nearby . References usgs gazetteer id 486 coord 54 6 S 36 59 W display title Category Bays of South Georgia SouthGeorgia geo stub ... more details
The Antarctic Sun an online and print newspaper with News about the United States Antarctic Program USAP , the ice, and the people it is funded by the National Science Foundation contract no. PRSS 0000373 ref Name AboutTheSun cite web last The Antarctic Sun is produced by the U.S. Antarctic Program s prime contractor, Raytheon Polar Services Company RPSC title About The Antarctic Sun work publisher U. S. Antarctic Program date 2007 10 26 url http antarcticsun.usap.gov aboutTheSun format Web doi accessdate 2007 11 11 ref written and published in McMurdo Station , Antarctica . ref Name NSFNews cite web title News work As a federally funded program, the USAP is dedicated to inform the public of its activities and results publisher National Science Foundation date October 3, 2005 url http www.usap.gov usapgov news format Web doi accessdate 2007 11 11 ref The weekly publication has been covering cutting edge science for the National Science Foundation every austral summer since 1996 1997 ref Name tenyears cite web last Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor title Ten years and counting work News Article publisher The Antarctic Sun date November 1, 2007 url http antarcticsun.usap.gov features contentHandler.cfm?id 1262 format Web doi accessdate 2007 11 11 ref with the full archive of past issues available on line at http antarcticsun.usap.gov pastIssues . References Reflist External links http antarcticsun.usap.gov The Antarctic Sun Official website, United States Antarctic Program br DEFAULTSORT Antarctic Sun, The Category Communications in Antarctica Category United States Antarctic Program Category McMurdo Station Category Newspapers newspaper stub Antarctica stub cs The Antarctic Sun ... more details
Antarctic Point is a headland which marks the west side of the entrance to Antarctic Bay on the north coast of South Georgia . It was charted in the period 1926&ndash 30 by Discovery Investigations personnel, who named it after nearby Antarctic Bay. References usgs gazetteer id 490 coord 54 4 S 36 58 W display title Category Headlands of South Georgia SouthGeorgia geo stub ... more details
Image Antarctica Region.png thumb 200px right Antarctic Convergence The Antarctic Convergence is a curve continuously encircling Antarctica where cold, northward flowing Antarctic waters meet the relatively warmer waters of the subantarctic . Antarctic waters predominantly sink beneath subantarctic waters, while associated zones of mixing and upwelling create a zone very high in marine productivity, especially for Antarctic krill . This line, like the Arctic tree line , is a natural boundary rather than an artificial one, like a line of latitude. It not only separates two hydrology hydrological regions , but also separates areas of distinctive marine life associations and of different climate s. There is no Arctic equivalent, due to the amount of land surrounding the northern polar region. History The Antarctic Convergence was first crossed by Anthony de la Roch in 1675, ref R.K. Headland, The Island of South Georgia , Cambridge University Press, 1984. ref and described by Sir Edmund Halley in 1700. ref Alan Gurney, Below the Convergence Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699 1839 , Penguin Books, New York, 1998. ref Location The Antarctic Convergence is actually a zone approximately convert 32 to 48 km mi abbr on wide, varying somewhat in latitude seasonally and in different longitude s, extending across the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic , Pacific Ocean Pacific , and Indian Ocean Indian Ocean .... Although the northern boundary varies, for the purposes of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic ... of Antarctic Marine Living Resources 1980, Article 1 4 . ref Although this zone is a mobile one, it usually ... del Fuego and Macquarie Island lie north of the Antarctic Convergence. The Kerguelen Islands lie ... of the Convergence. See also AntarcticAntarctic Circle Antarctic Circumpolar Wave Southern Ocean Antarctic ... go graphic the antarctic convergence Map of Antarctic Convergence Category Environment of Antarctica Category Antarctic region bg ca Converg ncia Ant rtica cs Antarktick konvergence ... more details
One source date August 2010 Refimprove date August 2010 stack Image World map with antarctic circle.svg thumb 350px World map showing the Antarctic Circle in red. Image Antarctic circle.svg thumb 350px Map of the Antarctic with the Antarctic Circle in blue. The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major ... in Spanish ref Description The area south of the Antarctic Circle is known as the Antarctic , and the zone ... line of latitude in the northern hemisphere is the Arctic Circle . Every place south of the Antarctic ... whole day during which the sun does not rise. On the Antarctic Circle these events occur, in principle ... that the sun is a sphere rather than a point. Mirages on the Antarctic continent tend to be even ... s axis, the Antarctic Circle is slowly moving. See circle of latitude Movement of the Tropics and the Arctic and Antarctic circles circles of latitude . Geography and demographics kml The continent of Antarctica forms a land mass covering much of the area within the Antarctic Circle. There is no permanent human population on Earth south of the Antarctic Circle. There are, however, several Antarctic research centers from various nations that are inhabited by teams of scientists that rotate ... have been born in Antarctica, albeit in stations north of the Antarctic Circle. See Demographics of Antarctica . Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the Antarctic Circle passes through ... Antarctica Antarctica Enderby Land Territory List of Antarctic territorial claims claimed by AUS style ... name Antarctica Antarctica Territory List of Antarctic territorial claims claimed by AUS style background ... List of Antarctic territorial claims claimed by AUS style background b0e0e6 Coord 66 34 S 92 ... Coord 66 34 S 93 52 E type country name Antarctica Antarctica Territory List of Antarctic territorial ... S 110 12 E type country name Antarctica Antarctica Wilkes Land Territory List of Antarctic territorial ... name Antarctica Antarctica Wilkes Land Territory List of Antarctic territorial claims claimed ... more details
Infobox ship begin Infobox ship image Ship image File Antarctic 1.png 300 px Ship caption The Antarctic , Gothenburg harbor, 1901 Infobox ship career Hide header Ship name Antarctic Ship owner Ship operator ... capacity 346 brutto Ship crew Ship notes The Antarctic was a Sweden Swedish steamship built in Drammen ... this ship. The ship Antarctic was a barque with three masts and equipped with a steam engine . Build ... URN NBN no nb digibok 2008121110001 &struct DIV44 , Henrik Bull, The cruise of the Antarctic to the South ... 10 ref Initially the Antarctic was used for seal hunting around Svalbard , Jan Mayen and Greenland ... Svend Foyn wanted to expand his business to the Antarctic Ocean thereby needing capable ships. Foyn then purchased the Cap Nor , made extensive repairs and after completion renamed the ship Antarctic . ref name A ref name B ref name AA From 1893 the ship was deployed to the Antarctic ocean for whale ... . ref name AA In 1900 Amdrup sold the Antarctic to Otto Nordenskj ld who needed the ship for his Swedish Antarctic Expedition Antarctic expedition . The expeditions File Antarctic 2.png thumb 300 px The Antarctic leaving Gothenburg harbor, 1901. In 1893 the Antarctic captained by Leonard Kristensen ... sealer John Davis sealer John Davis had already made a landing on the Antarctic Peninsula on February ..., An Antarctic Timeline, accessdate 2010 12 10 ref ref name Y1 http www.antarctic circle.org rosove.htm , Antarctic Circle.org, Antarctic voyages and expeditions, accessdate 2010 12 10 ref ref name ..., Antarctic History, accessdate 2010 12 10 ref In 1898 the Antarctic captained by Emil ... the Antarctic carried Amdrup s expedition to Tunu East Greenland . ref name AA In 1901 the ship ..., Uppsala University in Swedish , accessdate 2010 12 10 ref On October 16, 1901 the Antarctic now captained by Carl Anton Larsen left Gothenburg harbor on Nordenskjold s Swedish Antarctic Expedition Antarctic expedition . ref name X http www.south pole.com p0000091.htm , South Pole.com, Nordenskj ld ... more details
s, can survive in Antarctic oases. Geography The larger oases are McMurdo Dry Valleys , about convert ... Riffenburgh Riffenburgh, Beau Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, vol II Routledge, New York, 2007, ISBN ... About Antarctic oases and Dry valleys, British Antarctic Survey http www.rosssea.info landforms.html Pictures from various Antarctic oases and Dry valleys Category Landforms of Antarctica Category ... more details
Antarctic gyre may refer to any of the three ocean current s and ocean gyre gyres within the Southern Ocean Antarctic Circumpolar Current , an ocean current circulating around Antarctica Ross Gyre , an oceanic gyre in the Ross Sea Weddell Gyre , an oceanic gyre in the Weddell Sea disambig hr Antarkti ki vrtlozi sr ... more details
Antarctic whales are any whales which are known to reside near Antarctica for at least part of the year. This includes Baleen whale Blue whale Dwarf sperm whale Fin whale Humpback whale Killer whale Minke whale Minke whale Antarctic Orca whale Pygmy right whale Pygmy sperm whale Sei whale Southern bottlenose whale Southern right whale Sperm whale Toothed whale disambig Category Cetaceans References reflist http library.thinkquest.org 26442 html life whale.htm ThinkQuest.org ... more details
See also Antarctic microorganisms Antarctica is one of eight terrestrial ecozone s. The ecosystem includes Antarctica and several island groups in the southern Atlantic Ocean Atlantic and Indian Ocean s. The continent of Antarctica is so cold and dry that it has supported virtually no vascular plants for millions of years, and its flora presently consists of around 250 lichen s, 100 moss es, 25 30 Marchantiophyta liverworts , and around 700 terrestrial and aquatic alga l species, which live on the areas of exposed rock and soil around the shore of the continent. Antarctica s two flowering plant species, the Antarctic hair grass Deschampsia antarctica and Antarctic pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis , are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula . Antarctica is also home to a diversity of animal life, including penguin s, pinniped seals , and whale s. 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 . These islands ... of tundra plants, although they are all too windy and cold to support trees. Antarctic krill is the keystone ..., and supported the Antarctic flora , including forests of Podocarpaceae podocarps and southern beech ... 30 35 million years ago allowed the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to form, which isolated Antarctica climatically and caused it to become much colder. The Antarctic flora subsequently died out in Antarctica ... an Antarctic Floristic Kingdom that includes Antarctica, New Zealand, and parts of Temperate South America where the Antarctic Flora is still a major component. Ecoregions Four tundra ecoregions are recognized ... W source kolossus cawiki display title Category Antarctic ecozone Category Ecozones Category Biogeography Category Phytogeography Category Antarctic region ca Zona ant rtica eo Antarkta ekozono fa ... more details
Taxobox name Antarctic Silverfish image Pleuragramma antarcticum.jpg status LC status system iucn3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Actinopterygii ordo Perciformes subordo Notothenioidei familia Nototheniidae genus Pleuragramma genus authority George Albert Boulenger Boulenger , 1902 ref name Boulenger 1902 species P. antarcticum binomial Pleuragramma antarcticum binomial authority George Albert Boulenger Boulenger , 1902 ref name Boulenger 1902 George Albert Boulenger Boulenger G. A. 1902 . Rep. Voy. Southern Cross , p. 187. ref The Antarctic Silverfish , Pleuragramma antarcticum is a member of the suborder Notothenioidei of the Perciformes Perciform fishes. ref ITIS id 642933 taxon Pleuragramma antarcticum accessdate 11 March 2006 ref Pleuragramma antarcticum is a keystone species in the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean . ref name Bottaro 2009 Bottaro M., Oliveri D., Ghigliotti ... on two developmental stages of the Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum , a key species ... 009 9106 5 . ref While widely distributed around the Antarctic, the species appears to have largely disappeared from the western side of the northern Antarctic Peninsula based on a 2010 research cruise funded by the National Science Foundation under the U.S. Antarctic Program . ref cite news url http antarcticsun.usap.gov science contenthandler.cfm?id 2192 work The Antarctic Sun title Climate change may be to blame for disappearance of Antarctic silverfish ref Description It usually grows to approximately ... month November year 2005 ref This Antarctic marine fish is one of several in the region which produce antifreeze protein antifreeze glycopeptides as an adaptation against the extreme cold of Antarctic ... 7656179 title Antifreeze glycopeptides in the high Antarctic Silverfish Pleurogramma antarcticum ... Oncaea curvata . ref name Granata 2009 Antarctic silverfish are an important prey species for high ... Antarctic Silverfish Category Nototheniidae Category Fauna of Antarctica ca Pleuragramma antarctica ... more details
Image Antpen en.png thumb Antarctic Peninsula map. Image Antarctica map indicating Antarctic Peninsula.JPG thumb Location of Antarctic Peninsula within Antarctica . The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost ... on the mainland south of Eklund Islands . The Antarctic Peninsula is important because research ... Antarctica Argentina , Chilean Antarctic Territory Chile and British Antarctic Territory the United ... Scott Antarctica Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic ... of Antarctic Peninsula is disputed but apparently occurred in 1820. The most likely first sighting of the Antarctic mainland, which was also the Antarctic Peninsula, was probably during an expedition ... Smith were the first to chart a part of the Antarctic Peninsula just three days later on the 30 ... of the peninsula. The next confirmed sighting was by John Biscoe who named the northern part of the Antarctic ... and 1904, Otto Nordenski ld led the Swedish Antarctic Expedition , one of the first expeditions that was to explore parts of Antarctica. ref name aga1 They landed on the Antarctic Peninsula in February ... but was a peninsula. Agreement on the name Antarctic Peninsula by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic .... ref name gnis gnis id 489 type antarid ref Graham Land is now that part of the Antarctic Peninsula ... and Antarctic visionary. Other Spanish countries call it Pen nsula Ant rtica , among them Argentina ... the first permanent British bases on the Antarctic Peninsula were established. Tourism to the Antarctic ... the Antarctic Peninsula. ref cite news url http news.google.com newspapers?id 1UVPAAAAIBAJ&sjid HgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg ... Bah a Para so B 1 Bah a Para so and subsequent 170,000 gallon oil spill occurred near the Antarctic ... distance swim record by undertaking a convert 1 km mi abbr on swim at Petermann Island off the Antarctic ... Antarctic ship evacuated author accessdate 2009 07 22 date 24 November 2007 publisher British Broadcasting Corporation ref Geography Image Antarctic Peninsula satellite image.jpg thumb Satellite image ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Antarctic Conquest title orig translator image image caption author Finn Ronne illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series subject Exploration publisher G. P. Putnam s Sons release date 1949 english release date media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages isbn NA preceded by followed by Antarctic Conquest the Story of the Ronne Expedition 1946 1948 is a 1949 science book by Norwegian American Antarctica Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne and science fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp , published in hardcover by G. P. Putnam s Sons . The role of de Camp, who was commissioned as a ghost writer to recast Ronne s manuscript into publishable form, is uncredited. Ronne s working title was reportedly Conquering the Antarctic . ref cite book last Laughlin first Charlotte coauthors Daniel J. H. Levack title De Camp An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography location San Francisco publisher Underwood Miller date 1983 page 26 ref The book relates the story of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition . Relationship to other works De Camp s work with Ronne is reflected in two of his contemporary Viagens Interplanetarias science fiction stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. One, the short story Calories story Calories , adopts an antarctic setting not utilized in any of the series s other stories in the other, the novel The Hand of Zei , the protagonist adopts the alias of an inhabitant of the planet s antarctic and is, like de Camp, employed as a ghostwriter for his explorer boss. Notes reflist External links http www.jstor.org stable 210999 Book review in the Geographical Review , v. 40, no. 1 Jan. 1950 , pp. 154 155 De Camp books Category 1949 books Category Science books Category Books by L. Sprague de Camp science book stub ... more details
Infobox Korean film name Antarctic Journal image Antarctic Journal.jpg caption Antarctic Journal poster writer Yim Pil sung br Bong Joon ho starring Song Kang ho br Yu Ji tae director Yim Pil sung producer Cha Seoung jae music Kenji Kawai cinematography Jeong Jeong hun editing distributor Showbox released Start date 2005 05 19 South Korea runtime 114 min. language Korean budget 8 mil. US est. hangul hanja linktext rr Namgeukilgi mr Namg kilgi Antarctic Journal 2005 in film 2005 is the feature film debut by South Korea n director Yim Pil sung . The movie mixes elements of psychological Thriller film thriller and classical horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility . The film had generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget over 8,000,000US and notable cast but wasn t a box office hit. Plot During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility POI , the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do hyung, discovers a Diary journal that was left behind by a United Kingdom British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min jae, another member of the expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up. Will they make it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter? Cast Song Kang ho Choi Do hyung Yu Ji tae Kim Min jae Choi Duek mun Seo Jae kyung Kim Kyeong ik Yang Geun chan Park Hie sun Lee Young min Yun Je moon Sung hoon Kang Hye jeong Yoo jin Sam Hammington English expedition party voice Produced on location in New Zealand by Beachfront Films ... kfilm05.html antarctic Kyu Hyun Kim s review at Koreanfilm.org Cinema of Korea Category ... film stub fr Antarctic Journal ... more details
Image AntarcticaDomeCSnow.jpg thumb right The high, flat, and cold environment of the Antarctic Plateau at Dome C Image Plateau surface.jpg thumb right Surface of Antarctic Plateau, at 150E, 77S The Antarctic Plateau sometimes referred to as the Polar Plateau is a large area of Central Antarctica , which extends over a diameter of about convert 1000 km , and which includes the region of the South Pole and the Amundsen Scott Station . This plateau is at an average elevation of about Convert 3000 m ft . Exploration This plateau was first sighted in 1903 during the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic, which was led by Robert Falcon Scott . Ernest Shackleton became the first to cross parts of this plateau in 1909 during his Nimrod Expedition , which turned back in bad weather when it had reached a point just 97 nautical miles from the South Pole . Shackleton named this plateau the King Edward VII Plateau in honor of the King of the United Kingdom . Just two years later in late 1911 , the Norwegian people Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen decided to name this plateau the Haakon VII Plateau in honor of the newly elected King Haakon VII of Norway , while Amundsen s expedition was returning from the Amundsen s South Pole expedition first journey to the South Pole in December 1911. The Antarctic ... members of its crew were the co pilot and the photographer. Climate The high elevations of the Antarctic ... Hemisphere . Fauna The nearly continual frigid winds that blow across the Antarctic Plateau ... No penguin s live on the Antarctic Plateau because there is nothing there for them to eat. Few or no birds fly over the Antarctic Plateau, and if any arrive there, they have been blown in by huge storms ... for human being s and their laboratory animals. Any microscopic life that could be found on the Antarctic ... Amundsen Scott South Pole Station Dome A Dome C Concordia Station Dome F East Antarctic Ice Sheet Gamburtsev Mountain Range Plateau Station Pole of inaccessibility Antarctic research station Ridge A Roald ... more details
Taxobox name Antarctic toothfish, Antarctic cod image Dmawsoni Head shot.jpg image caption Dissostichus ... binomial authority Norman, 1937 The Antarctic cod , or Antarctic toothfish , of the fish family Nototheniidae ... six seconds, research involving Antarctic toothfish may lead to advances in cardiac medicine involving ... enough due to hypothermia . The Antarctic cod is quite unrelated to a cod . It does not even belong ... deeper than 2000 metres. Fully grown, these grayish fish are among the biggest in the Antarctic .... The taste is said to be similar to cod, which led to species sometimes being called Antarctic ... Antarctic toothfish are relatively fast growing. They reach about 60 cm after five years ..., A. Horn, P.L. Hanchet, S.M. 2006 . Revised estimates of the biological parameters for Antarctic toothfish ..., J.M., D.W. Stevens and S.M. Hanchet. 2003. Diet of the Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni from the Ross Sea, Antarctica Subarea 88.1 . CCAMLR Science, 10 113 123. ref Stable isotope studies on Antarctic ... NIWA indicate Antarctic toothfish appear to occupy a similar trophic level in the Antarctic ... Ocean fish tissue samples to investigate trophic linkages of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni . 27 pp. CCAMLR Science, submitted English . CCAMLR WG EMM 07 19 ref Antarctic toothfish have a lightweight ... Sidell. 2008. Biological implications of low condition factor axe handle specimens of the Antarctic toothfish, Dissostichus mawsoni, from the Ross Sea. Antarctic Science, 20 537 551. ref They also ... depths of the Antarctic ocean. Coloring is black to olive brown, sometimes lighter on the undersides ... caught in the Ross Sea in the austral summer but has also been recorded from Antarctic coastal waters south of the Indian Ocean sector, in the vicinity of the Antarctic peninsula, and near the South Sandwich Islands. Antarctic toothfish is managed by the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic ..., Greenpeace International added the Antarctic cod to its seafood red list. The Greenpeace International ... more details
Infobox Company company name Antarctic Press company logo Image APLogo.jpg 150px company type List of comic book publishing companies Comic publisher company slogan foundation 1984 in comics 1984 founder Ben Dunn key people location San Antonio , Texas industry Publishing products Comics homepage official http www.antarctic press.com Antarctic Press is a San Antonio based comic book publishing company which publishes amerimanga American Manga style comic books. Founded by Ben Dunn in 1984, Antarctic Press has produced over 850 titles with a total circulation of over 5 million. Among its titles are some of the most respected and longest running independent comic series. History Its earliest titles were Mangazine and Extremely Silly Comics . Many now established names have started at Antarctic, with most continuing to work there, including Brian Denham , Ben Dunn , Eisner nominated Rod Espinosa , Guru eFX , Joseph Wight , and Chris Bunting . Graphic novelist Alex Robinson serializes his first book, Box Office Poison , with Antarctic in the 1990s. The company also produces a wide range of how to and you can comics, instructing on many areas of comic book creation and craft. Many of Antarctic ... . In 1998, some of these titles moved off to a separate company, Radio Comix . Recently, Antarctic ... Antarctic press.com date accessdate 2011 08 01 ref , a parody of Scott Pilgrim . The Science Fair ... Nunnemacher s Buffalo Wings . Winds of Winter Zetraman Revival Artists Artists who have worked for Antarctic ... Alex Robinson Danny Fahs Notes Reflist References refbegin gcdb publisher id 670 title Antarctic Press comicbookdb type publisher id 31 title Antarctic Press http www.comics db.com Other Publishers A Antarctic Press index.html Antarctic Press at the Big Comic Book DataBase refend External links official http www.antarctic press.com http squeee.purehubris.com tankvixens A Tank Vixens history Antarctic ... in 1984 de Antarctic Press pt Antarctic Press ... more details
Taxobox name Antarctic Neosquid image Alluroteuthis antarcticus type specimen.jpg image caption Type specimen 14.5 mm ML regnum Animal ia phylum Mollusc a classis Cephalopod a ordo Teuthida familia Neoteuthidae genus Alluroteuthis genus authority Nils Hjalmar Odhner Odhner , 1923 species A. antarcticus binomial Alluroteuthis antarcticus binomial authority Nils Hjalmar Odhner Odhner , 1923 ref name tol Cite web url http tolweb.org Alluroteuthis antarcticus 19925 title Alluroteuthis antarcticus publisher Tree of Life Web Project date accessdate 9 November 2010 ref synonyms The Antarctic Neosquid Alluroteuthis antarcticus is the only neoteuthidae neosquid in the genus Alluroteuthis . ref name tol The tentacle s are relatively short compared to the Cephalopod arm arm s. Nils Hjalmar Odhner , discoverer of the species, suggested that Parateuthis tunicata , discovered by Johannes Thiele in 1920, might be a young Antarctic Neosquid. The validity of this suggestion is still in question. The name is derived from its habitat in the Antarctic Ocean . References Reflist Category Squid Category Animals described in 1923 ... more details
Taxobox name Antarctic Tern image Sterna vittata Antarctica I.jpg status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Charadriiformes familia Sternidae genus Sterna species S. vittata binomial Sterna vittata binomial authority Johann Friedrich Gmelin Gmelin , 1789 The Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern , but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight. It is, of course, in breeding plumage in the southern summer, when Arctic has moulted to its non breeding plumage though this is not useful for separating it from another species, the South American Tern . Breeding takes place from mid November to early December. Chicks hatch from December to February. Skua s and jaegers are the primary predators of this bird s eggs and young. The total global population of this bird is around 140,000 individuals. Description File Sterna vittata St Andrews Bay, South Georgia, British Overseas Territories, UK flying 8 1 .jpg thumb left Flying over St Andrews Bay, South Georgia, British Overseas Territories The Antarctic Tern is a small bird at 31 38 cm 12 15 inches long. Its bill is usually a dark red or blackish. It is mainly pale grey and white, but has a black cap when breeding. In non breeding plumage it has a grizzled crown and white forehead. The tips of this tern s wings are greyish black. The plumage of juveniles is white on the belly, foreneck, forehead, and breast. The back is grey and the bill is black. Immature birds have plumage similar to adult terns. References Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey ...&sid 3272&m 0 The Antarctic Tern at Birdlife International accessed August 25, 2006 A http www.70south.com resources antarctic animals antarctic birds antarctictern Page about the Antarctic Tern accessed August 25, 2006 Category Antarctic birds Category Sterna Category Birds of South Africa Category ... more details
merge Antarctic Floristic Kingdom discuss Talk Antarctic flora Merger proposal date November 2011 Main Antarctic Floristic Kingdom Image NothofagusFusca.jpg thumb right 240px Nothofagus fusca , New Zealand The Antarctic flora is a distinct community of vascular plant s which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana , and is now found on several separate areas of the Southern ... Caledonia . Based on the similarities in their flora, botanist Ronald Good identified a separate Antarctic ... mostly supplanted the Antarctic flora. Millions of years ago, Antarctica was warmer and much wetter, and supported the Antarctic flora, including forests of Podocarpaceae podocarps and southern ... 30 35 million years ago allowed the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to form, which isolated Antarctica climatically and caused it to become much colder. The Antarctic flora subsequently died out ... in Antarctic Flora are still a recognized major component of New Caledonia , Tasmania , Madagascar ... with the Eurasian continent, and today the flora of Africa and India have few remnants of the Antarctic flora. Australia drifted north and became drier as well the humid Antarctic flora retreated ... 50 60,000 years ago, and used fire to reshape the vegetation of the continent as a result, the Antarctic ... less than 2 of Australia s land area. The woody plant s of the Antarctic flora include conifer ... of flowering plants and ferns, including the tree fern Dicksonia , are characteristic of the Antarctic flora. Flora of Antarctica Main Antarctic ecozone Palaeofloristic studies of the continent of Antarctica show the ecological dominance of the angiosperms on the Antarctic continent and the Southern ... and aquatic alga l species. Two flowering plants, Deschampsia antarctica Antarctic hair grass and Colobanthus quitensis Antarctic pearlwort , are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic ... lithophila . See also commonscat Flora of Antarctica div col colwidth 30em Antarctic Floristic Kingdom ... more details
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