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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
/ æԳˈɑːɪə /
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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Example Sentences
These extremely remote islands about 1,000 miles north of Antarctica consist mostly of barren tundra.
Incidents in Antarctica are rare, but not unprecedented.
Prof Griffiths and Prof Johnston are working on the Sir David Attenborough ship collecting evidence of what their team believe is a huge flow of nutrients from ice in Antarctica across Earth.
But through much of the Miocene, it was a warm world compared to today’s, a high CO2 planet that gradually cooled over millions of years until ice sheets developed in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica.
Located about halfway between Australia, Antarctica and Madagascar, the island has seen burning across more than 55% of its 54 sq km area.
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