The Antarctic (/ænˈtɑːr(k)tɪk/; US also /æntˈɑːr(k)tɪk/, commonly /ænˈɑːrtɪk/) is the polar region of Earth that surrounds the South Pole, lying within...

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to...

Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic...

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude...

The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom as one of its 14 British Overseas Territories, of which...

Antarctic English is a variety of the English language spoken by people living on the continent of Antarctica and within the subantarctic islands. Spoken...

The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) is a region of East Antarctica claimed by Australia as an external territory. It is the largest sector of Antarctica...

the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. He is also known for discovering Mount Sidley, the largest dormant...

territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and study facilities within their respective claimed...

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. It is a small, swimming crustacean that...

The Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni), also known as the Antarctic cod, is a large, black or brown fish found in very cold (even subzero) waters...

In meteorology, the Antarctic High is the stronger of the two polar highs, areas of high atmospheric pressure situated in the poles. It is situated over...

Look up Antarctic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Antarctic is the high-latitude region enclosed by the Antarctic Circle. It may also refer to:...

Antarctic fishes are a relatively limited but highly specialized group of species adapted to extreme cold in the Southern Ocean. Many belong to the “white-blooded”...

The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square...

Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus...

the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west, specifically the Caird Coast, Coats Land on the West, and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east...

ice stations set up in the Arctic, the current research stations of the Antarctic are constructed either on rocks or on ice that are (for practical purposes)...

77°00′S 150°00′E / 77.000°S 150.000°E / -77.000; 150.000 The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica...

of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate...

69°30′S 65°00′W / 69.500°S 65.000°W / -69.500; -65.000 The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina...

The Antarctic oscillation (AAO, to distinguish it from the Arctic oscillation or AO), also known as the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), is a low-frequency...

The Antarctic Circle is the most southerly of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of Earth. The region south of this circle is known as...

Antarctic Adventure (けっきょく南極大冒険, Kekkyoku Nankyoku Daibōken; lit. "Actually Antarctic Big Adventure") is a video game developed by Konami in 1983 for...

The Antarctic Convergence or Antarctic Polar Front is a marine belt encircling Antarctica where cold, northward-flowing Antarctic waters meet the warmer...

Antarctic whales are any whales which are known to reside near Antarctica for at least part of the year. This includes: Arnoux's beaked whale Blue whale...

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) is an overseas territory (French: Territoire d'outre-mer...

Antarctic Expeditions, information about some of them from the British Antarctic Survey Antarctic-circle.org, Chronologies and Timelines of Antarctic...

An Antarctic oasis is a large area naturally free of snow and ice in the otherwise ice-covered continent of Antarctica. In Antarctica there are, in addition...

American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program...

The Chilean Antarctic Territory, or Chilean Antarctica (Spanish: Territorio Chileno Antártico, Antártica Chilena), is a part of West Antarctica and nearby...

The Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica), or Antarctic herring, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nototheniidae...

coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) An Antarctic Protected Area is an area protected under the Antarctic Treaty System. There are three types of Protected...

was a British naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition...

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...

that of the cockatoo squids, or glass squids. It is sometimes called the Antarctic cranch squid or giant squid (not to be confused with the giant squid in...

The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae...

The Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata) is a seabird in the family Laridae. It ranges throughout the southern oceans and is found on small islands around...

Russian Antarctic Expedition (Russian: Российская Антарктическая экспедиция; RAE) is a continuously operating expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research...

The Antarctic plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and...

relations and internal security. Three territories, namely the British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and the British...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica. An...

Antarctic Journal is a 2005 South Korea survival psychological horror film directed by Yim Pil-sung in his feature film debut. Starring Song Kang-ho and...

The Antarctic scallop (Adamussium colbecki) is a species of bivalve mollusc in the large family of scallops, the Pectinidae. It was thought to be the...

was one of the 12 countries that initially negotiated and signed the Antarctic Treaty (Washington, 1959). The first Belgian expedition of scientific...

Japan formulated a new Antarctic research whaling program, "NEWREP-A", to replace JARPA II. Under this program, 333 Antarctic minke whales were hunted...

90°00′S 0°00′W / 90.000°S -0.000°E / -90.000; -0.000 The Antarctic realm is one of eight terrestrial biogeographic realms. The ecosystem includes Antarctica...

The Antarctic prion (Pachyptila desolata) also known as the dove prion, or totorore in Māori, is the largest of the prions, a genus of small petrels of...

The Antarctic shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis), sometimes referred to as the imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag or Antarctic...

weather of the interior contrasts to the relatively mild conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula and the subantarctic islands, which have warmer temperatures...

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended...

antarctica, the Antarctic hair grass, is one of two flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort). Deschampsia...

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) is a division of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment & Water. The division undertakes science...

1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of...

The Antarctic neosquid (Alluroteuthis antarcticus) is the only neosquid in the genus Alluroteuthis. The tentacles are relatively short compared to the...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling...

camp can vary – some are permanent structures used during the annual Antarctic summer, whereas others are little more than tents used to support short...

Antarctic Crossing is a 1958 British documentary film directed by George Lowe. The film follows Sir Vivian Fuchs on his way back from Shackleton Base...

The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) long and from 7 to 12 nautical miles (13 to 22 km; 8 to 14 mi) wide, separating...

Template:Short decription Scouting in the Antarctic is maintained by a single troop of Argentine Scouts and also by visiting Scouts from other nations...

Antarctic gyre may refer to any of the three ocean currents and gyres within the Southern Ocean: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, an ocean current circulating...

The Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica) is a boldly marked dark brown and white petrel, found in Antarctica, most commonly in the Ross and Weddell...

Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) is a cold, relatively low salinity water mass found mostly at intermediate depths in the Southern Ocean. The AAIW...

Antarctic Haven (Danish: Antarctichavn) is a bay in King Christian X Land, Northeastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland...

former whaling settlements. Approximately 12 nations, all signatory to the Antarctic Treaty, send personnel to perform seasonal (summer) or year-round research...

Antarctic flora are a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana. As of 2025[update]...

Antarctic beech is a common name of two species in the genus Nothofagus: Nothofagus antarctica, native to South America Nothofagus moorei, native to Australia...

There are hundreds of antarctic lakes in Antarctica. In 2018, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research published a study...

Antarctic Press is a San Antonio-based comic book publishing company which publishes "Amerimanga" style comic books. The company also produces "how-to"...

by over 0.1 °C per decade from the 1950s to the 2000s, and the exposed Antarctic Peninsula has warmed by 3 °C (5.4 °F) since the mid-20th century. The...

Antarctic Conquest: the Story of the Ronne Expedition 1946-1948 is a 1949 science book by Norwegian-American Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne and science...

claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory. It consists of the Antarctic Peninsula and a triangular section extending to the South Pole, delimited...

The Antarctic–Phoenix Ridge, also called the Phoenix Ridge, is an extinct mid-ocean ridge that consisted of three spreading ridge segments between the...

British Antarctic Expedition may refer to: British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900, also known as the Southern Cross Expedition British Antarctic Expedition...

per year and snow rarely melts on most parts of the continent. After Antarctic snow becomes compressed, it becomes the glacier ice that makes up the...

common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent. It is the most widespread penguin species in the Antarctic, and, along with the emperor penguin...

The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a vehicle designed under the direction of Thomas Poulter, intended to facilitate transport in Antarctica during the United...

and countries, notably Australia, have other definitions) and of the Antarctic Treaty System. It also marks the southern boundary of the South Pacific...

Antarctica (Portuguese: Antártida Brasileira or Antártica Brasileira) is the Antarctic territory south of 60°S, and from 28°W to 53°W, proposed as a "zone of...

The Antarctic land bridge was a land bridge connecting the continents of South America, Antarctica, and Australia that existed from the Late Cretaceous...

Antarctic was a Swedish steamship built in Drammen, Norway, in 1871. She was used on several research expeditions to the Arctic region and to Antarctica...

countries that also have territorial claims in Antarctica. Under the 1961 Antarctic Treaty, of which all territorial claimants are signatories, including...

are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes...

CFC photolysis products into contact with ozone. The Antarctic ozone hole is an area of the Antarctic stratosphere in which the recent ozone levels have...

Argentina was one of the twelve original signatories of the Antarctic Treaty which was signed on December 1, 1959, and came in force on 21 June 1961....

United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or...

The Antarctic minke whale or southern minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales. It is the...

The Pakistan Antarctic Programme (Urdu: پاکستان پروگرام برائے قطبِ جنوبی), abbreviated as PAP) is a scientific administrative division of the Ministry...

Antarctic Pioneers is a 1963 Australian documentary about Australia's history of Antarctic exploration from Sir Douglas Mawson's first expedition in 1911...

link] "Antarctic Firsts". Antarctic Circle. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2016. Walsh, Martin (24 January 2024). "On the New Antarctic Speed Record:...

Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's Southern Hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle...

There have been several Norwegian Antarctic expeditions: Jason Expeditions (1892–1894), led by Carl Anton Larsen Antarctic Expedition (1894–1895), led by...

oceans, French Guiana on the South American continent, and several peri-Antarctic islands as well as a claim in Antarctica. Excluding the district of Adélie...

The Antarctic Sun is an online newspaper with "News about the USAP, the Ice, and the People." It is funded by the National Science Foundation (contract...

The Antarctic gateway cities are five cities on the rim of the Southern Ocean through which nearly all cargo and personnel bound for Antarctica pass....

The Indian Antarctic Programme is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional programme under the control of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research...

the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national...

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council (ISC). SCAR coordinates international...

German Antarctic Expedition can refer to: Eduard Dallmann's expedition of 1873–74, in Grönland First German Antarctic Expedition of 1901–03 Second German...

000 km2 (19,000 sq mi). The two currently existing ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet. Ice sheets are the largest glacial...

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (abbreviated as ITAE) of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...

Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean portion of the Antarctic or Southern Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between...

Belgica antarctica, the Antarctic midge, is a species of flightless midge, endemic to the continent of Antarctica. At a length of 2–6 mm (0.08–0.2 in)...

recognised: P. p. papua (subantarctic gentoo) and the smaller P. p. ellsworthi (Antarctic gentoo). However, a 2020 study suggested that the gentoo penguin be split...

species of minke whale are the northern common minke whale and the southern Antarctic minke whale. The minke whale was first described by the Danish naturalist...

portal List of Antarctic flags Flag of the Antarctic Treaty Flag of the British Antarctic Territory Flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands Flag of...

Antarctic Polar Front may refer to: The Antarctic Convergence, in oceanography The Polar Front commonly known as the "Antarctic Front", in atmospheric...

Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, also known as the Madrid Protocol, is a complementary legal instrument to the Antarctic Treaty signed in Madrid...

are three regions and associated types of tundra: Arctic, Alpine, and Antarctic. Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses...

also known as the Antarctic pearlwort, is one of two native flowering plants found in the Antarctic region, the other being Antarctic hair grass. It has...

The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910–12, in the ship Kainan Maru, was the first such expedition by a non-European nation. It was concurrent with...

The First Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947–1948) was an expedition to Antarctica mounted by the Chilean government and military to enforce its territorial...

German Antarctic Receiving Station or GARS O'Higgins is a German polar research station in Antarctica. It is located at Cape Legoupil on the Antarctic Peninsula...

regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Amundsen began his career...

commander James Clark Ross. It was first crossed during the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The mountain range stretches between the Oates...

Scott of the Antarctic is a 1948 British adventure film starring John Mills as Robert Falcon Scott in his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole. The...

Antarctic Bay is a bay 1 mile (1.6 km) wide which recedes southwest 4 miles (6 km), entered between Antarctic Point and Morse Point on the north coast...

The Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) was a climatic event of intense atmospheric and oceanic cooling across the southern hemisphere (>40°S) between 14,700...

the cold Antarctic Circumpolar Current also started as a continuous circumpolar flow only around 30 mya, on the one hand forcing the Antarctic cooling...

The Antarctic Medal is a civil decoration of Norway. Established by King Olav V on 3 February 1960, it was awarded to the individuals associated with...

and southern Patagonia. It is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the southern elephant seal). It is the same length as, but half...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet covering West Antarctica. The WAIS is a marine ice sheet, as the majority...

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of 3,687 km2 (1,424 sq mi). They lie about...

The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PAR, Antarctic Pacific Ridge, South Pacific Rise, South Pacific Ridge) is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on...

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south...

"Antarctic Four" is the ninth television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse. "Antarctic...

coordinated by the SETI Institute. Participants of the 34th Bulgarian Antarctic expedition celebrate Epiphany at St. Kliment Ohridski Base, Livingston...

ecoregions for Antarctic Realm are currently being incorporated (based on Terauds et al. 2012). Antarctic Realm - Tundra Biome: 1 North-east Antarctic Peninsula;...

The Australian Antarctic Medal (stylised AAM as post-nominal), originally designated the Antarctic Medal until 18 December 1997, is a meritorious service...

The Antarctic bottom water (AABW) is a type of water mass in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica with temperatures ranging from −0.8 to 2 °C (35 °F)...

meetings; "Antarctic Treaty database - Decision 2 (2002) - ATCM XXV - CEP V, Warsaw". www.ats.aq. Retrieved 2022-10-22. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research...

"Ross Shelf Ice" to this feature and published it in the original U.S. Antarctic Gazetteer. In January 1953, the name was changed to "Ross Ice Shelf";...

The Brazilian Antarctic Program (Portuguese: Programa Antártico Brasileiro; PROANTAR) is a program of the Brazilian Navy which has presence in the continent...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) is a coupled ocean/atmosphere wave that circles the Southern Ocean in approximately eight years at 6–8 cm/s (2.4–3...

of 19 suborders of the order Perciformes. The group is found mainly in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters, with some species ranging north to southern Australia...

The West Antarctic Rift System is a series of rift valleys between East and West Antarctica. It encompasses the Ross Embayment, the Ross Sea, the area...

the Circum Antarctic Current was also initiated in the Oligocene. In addition, drilling onshore around the Ross Sea and on the Antarctic Peninsular also...

The Antarctic continental shelf is a submerged piece of the Antarctic continent that underlies a portion of the Southern Ocean — the ocean which surrounds...

The Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (ATS) is a subsidiary body of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and, as such, performs its duties under...

The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) base on the Antarctic Peninsula, located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Rothera also...

The Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957–59) was led by Yevgeny Tolstikov on the continent and included Czech future astronomer Antonín Mrkos; the...

The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the...

The Antarctic Treaty issue is a postage stamp that was issued by the United States Post Office Department on June 23, 1971. Designed by Howard Koslow...

80°S 60°E / 80°S 60°E / -80; 60 The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is the sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet covering East Antarctica. The ice sheet...

the Antarctic. The editor-in-chief is Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey). Previous editors-in-chief include David W. H. Walton (British Antarctic Survey)...

The Antarctic Heritage Trust (New Zealand) which was formed in 1987. Although the two regularly collaborate, the NZAHT is not the same as the UK Antarctic...

departs Halifax on Operation PROJECTION 2025. This is the first-ever Antarctic visit by a Canadian military vessel. The mission is supporting a team...

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the...

The Russian State Arctic and Antarctic Museum (Russian: Российский государственный музей Арктики и Антарктики) is a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia dedicated...

88722; 55.07500 (British Antarctic Survey-accredited Pole of Inaccessibility), updated that year by the British Antarctic Survey. The team continued...

located in the Southern Hemisphere. Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya) is a sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Queen Maud Land is the sector of Antarctica...

the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora is a set of environmental protection measures which were accepted at the third Antarctic Treaty Consultative...

The International Antarctic Centre is a visitor attraction and public science discovery centre in the suburb of Harewood, Christchurch, New Zealand. It...

6 °F). One icefish, Champsocephalus esox, is distributed north of the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone. At least 16 species of crocodile icefish are currently...

in the Antarctic with a name starting with the letters A–H. This list does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet...

During the prelude to war, Nazi Germany organised the 1938 Third German Antarctic Expedition to preempt Norway's claim to Queen Maud Land. The expedition...

includes the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from East Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains and is covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It...

The Antarctic Ice Marathon was established by Richard Donovan and Polar Running Adventures to enable marathon runners to complete a marathon on all seven...

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure is an IMAX film about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton between 1914 and 1917. Directed...

An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written and published in 1897...

Antarctica would be located in all time zones; however, areas south of the Antarctic Circle experience extreme day-night cycles near the times of the June...

The sub-Antarctic zone is a physiographic region in the Southern Hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region. This translates roughly...

and photographer for the Ross Sea Party of Shackleton's Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition. Spencer-Smith set up a chapel in Ponting's darkroom in Scott's...

joined nutrition specialist Mike Stroud to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent unsupported; they took 93 days. A further attempt in 1996 to...

The Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory, is the head of government of the British Antarctic Territory, a British Overseas Territory of the...

The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (Russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya) was a Soviet...

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour...

This is a list of Antarctic ice shelves. Ice shelves are attached to a large portion of the Antarctic coastline. Their total area is 1,541,700 km2. Names...

were declared obsolete; Byrd Antarctic Expedition Medal Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition Medal United States Antarctic Expedition Medal The Antarctica...

The Uruguayan Antarctic Institute (Spanish: Instituto Antártico Uruguayo) is Uruguay's governmental agency to fund, organize, control and promote research...

The Antarctic Journal of the United States was a scientific journal that covered American research activities in Antarctica and its neighboring regions...

many of the expeditions of the Heroic Age, Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) employed dog-hauled sledges as a principal means of transportation...

is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland, for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted...

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland...

The Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base (Spanish: Teniente Carvajal) is a seasonal Chilean Antarctic base on the south-west tip of Adelaide...

making survey observations. Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial...

The Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913 was led by Wilhelm Filchner in the exploration ship Deutschland. Its principal objective was to determine...

a number of Antarctic churches, including both Christian churches on Antarctica proper and those that were built south of the Antarctic Convergence....

decommissioning she was converted to an Antarctic expedition cruise ship and operated as such until 2012 under the name MV Antarctic Dream. The vessel was built for...

Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, also known as the CAMLR Convention, is part of the Antarctic Treaty System. The Convention...

primarily on the free-floating pack ice that extends seasonally out from the Antarctic coast, which they use as a platform for resting, mating, social aggregation...

Trinity Peninsula (in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula). It is the only civilian settlement on the Antarctic mainland (the Chilean Villa Las Estrellas...

Megaleledone setebos, the giant Antarctic octopus, is a very large venomous octopus with a circum-Antarctic distribution. It grows to at least 28 cm in...

Mount Siple (/ˈsaɪpəl/ SIGH-p'l) is a potentially active Antarctic shield volcano, rising to 3,162 metres (10,374 ft) and dominating the northwest part...

1984–1985 and participated in seven Antarctic expeditions in total. He led the construction of China's first two Antarctic bases, the Great Wall Station in...

governance and protection of the Antarctic environment on behalf of its nation and in the spirit of the Antarctic Treaty. The Antarctic Treaty, the international...

of the Australian Antarctic Territory, though this claim has been held in abeyance for the period of the operation of the Antarctic Treaty, to which Australia...

Nicholas Range is a range of mountains in the Antarctic. The range is situated 46 km southwest of Magnet Bay in Kemp Land. They were discovered on 12...

number of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean and claims a section of the Antarctic continent. These territories are St. Helena with Ascension Island and...

The Jinnah Antarctic Station is an Antarctic research station operated by the Pakistan Antarctic Programme. Located in East Antarctica, it lies in the...

The flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Drapeau des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises) is a flag representing the overseas...

Land, composes one of the three Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic and Subantarctic. The island measures approximately 11 by 19 kilometres...

since it occupies fast ice environments close to the Antarctic continent and often adjacent to Antarctic bases. It is the only species in the genus Leptonychotes...

The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that researches the marine biodiversity of Antarctica, how...

List of Administrative Heads of Australian Antarctic Territory Directors of the Australian Antarctic Division (part of the Australian Department of Environment...

Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey is a graphic novel published in 2014 by First Second. Written and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi, the graphic novel focuses...

called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere south of the Indian...

The Byrd Antarctic Expedition Medal is a Congressional medal established by an Act of Congress in 1930 to commemorate the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of...

National Antarctic Research Program (Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide or PNRA) is the Italian Antarctic research program. The PNRA is directed...

Bulgarian Antarctic Institute is the national Antarctic operator of Bulgaria, organizing annual Antarctic campaigns and maintaining the Bulgarian Antarctic base...

Hjalmar Johansen) with the two expeditions, but these happened outside the Antarctic Circle. Historically, several factors have been discussed and many contributing...

This is a list of Antarctic women. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. They are arranged by the country of...

Specifically, one may speak of Arctic aviation and Antarctic aviation in the Arctic and Antarctic respectively. The major factors which define the character...

South: Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic is a restored version of the 1919 silent film documentary In the Grip of the Polar Pack...

in Oceania. Figures exclude external territories. and the Australian Antarctic Territory (5,896,500 km2). Claimed between 160°E–142°E and 136°E–44°38′E...

The Antarctic Micronational Union (AMU) is an intermicronational organization of self imaginative self proclaimed nations that aims to regulate micronational...

Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim...

Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbour, which is occasionally...

United States Antarctic Service Expedition, led by Richard Evelyn Byrd Norsel Iceport was used by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE)...

below. A close relative, the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni), is found farther south around the edges of the Antarctic shelf, and a Marine Stewardship...

Lady Shackleton (née Dorman; 15 May 1868 – 9 June 1936) was the wife of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the mother of Labour Party politician...

that calve from glaciers in Greenland are often irregularly shaped while Antarctic ice shelves often produce large tabular (table top) icebergs. The largest...

inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes. Antarctic Science 24, 659–664 Wright, Andrew; Siegert, Martin (December 2012). "A fourth inventory of Antarctic subglacial...

South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP) is the South African government's programme for research in the Antarctic and Subantarctic. Three...

The Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station (Portuguese: Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz) is a permanent Antarctic research station named after the Brazilian...

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi is a Japanese animated science fiction film. It is the 37th installment in the...

Notothenia coriiceps, also known as the black rockcod, Antarctic yellowbelly rockcod, or Antarctic bullhead notothen, is a species of marine ray-finned...

The Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition Medal was established by Act of Congress in 1936 to commemorate the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Established...

required by the Antarctic Treaty to have a permit to visit Antarctica. Because no country owns Antarctica, countries which have signed the Antarctic Treaty issue...

Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was...

Antarctica. Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition Antarctica New Zealand Argentine Antarctic Program Australian Antarctic Division Brazilian Antarctic Program...

of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound...

The German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–1939 was led by Kriegsmarine captain Alfred Ritscher (1879–1963) and was the third official Antarctic expedition...

Argentine Antarctic, or Argentine Antarctic Sovereignty Day (Spanish: Día de la Antártida Argentina, lit. 'day of the Argentine Antarctic'), is commemorated...

The South American–Antarctic Ridge or simply American-Antarctic Ridge (SAAR or AAR) (in Spanish: Dorsal Antártico-Americana) is the tectonic spreading...

in the Antarctic, known by many other titles, including in Australia as Home of the Blizzard, and released on the UK as Life in the Antarctic, is a collection...

The Antarctic Conservation Act, enacted in 1978 by the 95th United States Congress (Pub. L. 95–541), and amended by Pub. L. 104–227 (text) (PDF), is a...

The Antarctic floristic kingdom, also the Holantarctic kingdom, is a floristic kingdom that includes most areas of the world south of 40°S latitude. It...

The Late Cenozoic Ice Age, or Antarctic Glaciation, began around 33.9 million years ago at the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary and is ongoing. It is Earth's...

week. Cree LeFavour reported that during her time as a United States Antarctic Program at Amundsen-Scott from November 2023, she found food supplies...

Zealand. However, the claim is currently in abeyance by the International Antarctic Treaty System of 1961. Signatories of this treaty essentially agree that...

The coat of arms of the British Antarctic Territory are the official coat of arms for the British Antarctic Territory was first granted in 1952, when...

ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) is a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites...

The brown skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as the Antarctic skua, Subantarctic skua, southern great skua, southern skua, or hākoakoa (Māori)...

The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE), 1902–1904, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student...

The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Its mission...

officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James...

First photographed from the air and roughly plotted by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (3rd GAE), 1938–1939. Mapped in detail by Norwegian cartographers...

refer to: Antarctic region Antarctic Circle the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Subantarctic List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands Antarctic Convergence...

The Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (南極地域観測隊, Nankyoku chiiki kansoku-tai; JARE) refers to a series of Japanese Antarctic expeditions for scientific...

Colonization of Antarctica is the establishing and maintaining of control over Antarctic land for exploitation and possibly settlement. Antarctica was claimed...

The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (CCAS) is part of the Antarctic Treaty System. It was signed at the conclusion of a multilateral...

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible...

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...

failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. The book details...

isolation and confinement. He is an important contributor to the field of Antarctic psychology. While serving as the director of the United States Navy's...

plotted by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39, it was mapped from air photos and surveys by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60, remapped...

The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom as one of its 14 British Overseas Territories. It comprises...

modern use. The area is now part of Queen Maud Land, governed under the Antarctic Treaty System. New Swabia is divided into an ice-covered northern foreland...

Discovered in the mid-19th century, the territory is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4000 kilometres...

The Romanian Antarctic Foundation (Romanian: Fundația Antarctică Română, FAR) is a Romanian research institute that manages Romania's Polar research in...

responsible for administering the Indian Antarctic Programme and maintains the Indian government's Antarctic research stations, Bharati and Maitri. NCPOR...

ANARESAT or Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions Satellite is a communication solution using Intelsat Geostationary communication satellites...

humans, there has historically been little military activity in the Antarctic. The Antarctic Treaty, which came into effect on June 23, 1961, bans military...

main settlement of the Kerguelen Islands, and of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, in the south Indian Ocean. The settlement is located on the shore...

Antarctica. Northernmost: Martin-de-Viviès, Île Amsterdam, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France (37° 48' S) Without subantarctic islands, the northernmost...

crossed the Antarctic Circle (the first to do so since Cook) on 26 January 1820 (New Style). On 27 January, the expedition discovered the Antarctic mainland...

Press. p. 149. "Fire at Soviet Base In Antarctic Kills 8; Eight Scientists Die in Fire At Soviet Base in the Antarctic". The New York Times. 20 August 1960...

Ellsworth Mountains. It overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located about 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) from...

Antarctic expeditions by the Soviet Union is a list of expeditions from the Soviet Union to Antarctica. Soviet Antarctic Expedition List of Antarctic...

there is limited to short-term research or sporting expeditions. The Antarctic Treaty System provides that all legal rights in Antarctica are governed...

continental coastline of Victoria Land, Antarctica, east of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and west of McMurdo Sound and the Ross Sea. The Dry Valleys...

American Forces Antarctic Network is the name given to the American Forces Network operations for its bases in Antarctica, based out of McMurdo Station...

expedition ship. The ship is best known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition. Terra Nova (Latin for...

boundary, such as the global oxygen isotope shift marking the expansion of Antarctic glaciation (the Oi1 event). The upper boundary of the Oligocene is defined...

ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer) is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed to map in three dimensions...

a list of the bird species recorded of British Antarctic Territory. The avifauna of British Antarctic Territory include a total of 98 species. This list's...

attractions for the theme parks in 2010. One of the attractions listed was an Antarctic penguin exhibit due to open by the summer of 2010–2011. On 14 July 2010...

as having reached Antarctic waters. Women were included in these explorations. 1773 The first confirmed woman to visit the Antarctic region was Louise...

An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica, or on nearby islands, which is protected by scientists and several...

The Dumoulin Islands are a small group of rocky islands in the Antarctic region at the northeast end of the Géologie Archipelago, 4.6 kilometres (2.5 nmi)...

documentary film directed by George Butler about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition in 1914. It is based on the book of the same name. Endurance...

Range in northern Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. It is within the British Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, and Argentine Antarctica...

and Cape Roberts. It was discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) of 1901–04 in the Discovery in January 1902, while...

The Fourth Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition in Antarctica led by Aleksandr Gavrilovich Dralkin. According to Soviet News: The expedition...

away by the force of the katabatic winds, leading to "dry valleys" (or "Antarctic oases") such as the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Since the katabatic winds are...

is best known for her role as the expedition ship in the Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913. During this expedition she was taken further...

the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (popular as CRAMRA) is an unratified treaty that is part of the Antarctic Treaty System. The...

British Antarctic Territory was granted on 21 April 1998. It features the coat of arms granted on 1 August 1963, a year after the British Antarctic Territory...

non-essential organ functions. The only penguin species that breeds during the Antarctic winter, emperor penguins trek 50–120 km (31–75 mi) over the ice to breeding...

millions of years. Since the first discoveries of subglacial lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet, more than 400 subglacial lakes have been discovered in Antarctica...

territorial claims, held in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty System, over several islands close to the Antarctic mainland, including: Ross Island and the...

This is a list of Antarctic ice streams. A complete list of Antarctic ice streams is not available. Names and locations of Antarctic ice features, including...

767; -64.517), also known as Glaciar Alderete, is an 8-mile (13 km) long Antarctic glacier which lies close to the east of Gould Glacier and flows in a southerly...

Antarctic Expedition. Its WMO ID is 89550. Equipment and personnel were delivered by an Antarctic tractor convoy operated by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic...

The Antarctic Sound (Danish: Antarctic Sund) is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland...

functioning independently in harsh Polar ice packs of the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It was the first non-nuclear surface vessel to reach the North Pole...

off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula that contains the South Shetland Islands. The plate is bordered on three sides by the Antarctic plate, while the...

beneath Russia's Vostok Station, under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m (11,444 ft) above mean sea level. The surface...

Rondane Mountains in Queen Maud Land, in the Antarctic. The chain was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1957-1958) under Gaston de Gerlache...

The Antarctic Peninsula, roughly 1,000 kilometres (650 mi) south of South America, is the northernmost portion of the continent of Antarctica. Like the...

The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) is an Antarctic research program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that is based out...

commonly known as the Antarctic scale worm. This species is specifically found in the deep sea in cold waters like the Antarctic Ocean. The scale worms...

The Onyx River is an Antarctic meltwater stream that flows westward through the Wright Valley from Wright Lower Glacier and Lake Brownworth at the foot...

obtained at that time. The name was applied by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1969. The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 22°0′W...

the Antarctic Creek Member, as well as separate dating of the overlying and underlying volcanic strata, suggested that the age of the Antarctic Creek...

Antarctica. The Sabine Glacier is on the Davis Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It drains north into the Orléans Strait to the west of Cape...

latitude, Bouvet Island is not part of the southern region covered by the Antarctic Treaty System. The island lies 1,700 km (1,100 mi; 920 nmi) north of the...

Almirante Brown, or more often Base Brown or Estación Brown) is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Admiral William Brown...

rock point on the Antarctic Peninsula, the most northern area of the continent of Antarctica, was named for African American Antarctic explorer, George...

disputed by China. It would be 322nd largest. Islands portal List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands List of countries and dependencies by area List...

The distribution and abundance of Antarctic and Subantarctic penguins. Cambridge: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Splettstoesser, John F.;...

Nothofagus moorei, commonly known as Antarctic beech, is a species of flowering plant in the family Nothofagaceae that is endemic to high elevation areas...

The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere...

awarded a long-term contract by the Australian Antarctic Division for the provision of a range of Antarctic air services. Since then, the company's role...

of safe and environmentally responsible private-sector travel to the Antarctic". Since the group's inception membership has grown to over 100 members...

An Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA) is a protected area on the continent of Antarctica, or on its adjacent islands. ASMAs are managed by the governments...

mood disturbances. It can exhibit itself in a fugue state known as the Antarctic stare. Effects of polar environment conditions (long time coldness or...

607 ft) above sea level on a geographical formation known as dôme C, on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica. It is located 1,100 km (680 mi) inland from the French...

-64.417; -58.950) is an Antarctic refuge located on Cape Longing in the Trinity Peninsula, at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The wooden hut...

photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. It was mapped from air photos and surveys by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60; remapped...

Labidiaster annulatus, the Antarctic sun starfish or wolftrap starfish is a species of starfish in the family Heliasteridae. It is found in the cold waters...

relief vessel to Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904). She made two voyages to the Antarctic to resupply the expedition. Morgenen was...

The Antarctic Technology Offshore Lagoon Laboratory (ATOLL) was a floating oceanographic laboratory for in situ observation experiments. This facility...

Bluff. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Krakra Bluff. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission...

Sterechinus neumayeri, the Antarctic sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae. It is found living on the seabed in the waters around...

Gibbs Islands. Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic...

The Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition was led by Aleksei Treshnikov on the continent; the marine expedition on the "Ob" was led by I. V. Maksimov. The...

by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. It was mapped from air photos and from surveys by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60...

The 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition was the Soviet Antarctic Expedition that ran from 1967 to 1969. The leader of the expedition was Aleksei Treshnikov...

Bharati is a permanent Antarctic research station commissioned by India. It is India's third Antarctic research facility and one of two active Indian...

in the Antarctic with a name starting with the letters I–Z. This list does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet...

The First Russian Antarctic Expedition took place in 1819–1821 under the direction of Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The expedition aimed...

Bathylagus antarcticus, the Antarctic deep-sea smelt, is a deep-sea smelt found around the Southern Ocean as far south as Antarctica, to depths of 4,000...

include: Greenland ice sheet disintegration, West Antarctic ice sheet disintegration, East Antarctic ice sheet disintegration, arctic sea ice decline,...

described. This page lists notable places in and immediately surrounding the Antarctic continent, including geographic features, bodies of water, and human settlements...

The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...

vessel of the Russian state Geological Exploration Holding Rosgeo. The a Antarctic research vessel is capable of seismic and other geological research on...

taken from an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Squadron...

German Antarctic Expedition(1938–1939) led by Alfred Ritscher. Further mapping was carried out using air photos and surveys by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition...

to rescue the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of Professor Otto Nordenskjöld, after the expedition had been trapped by the Antarctic winter. Almirante Irízar...

The East Antarctic Shield or Craton is a cratonic rock body that covers 10.2 million square kilometers or roughly 73% of the continent of Antarctica....

Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Mawson Station lies in Holme Bay in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica in the Australian Antarctic Territory, a...

Antarctic sea ice is the sea ice of the Southern Ocean. It extends from the far north in the winter and retreats to almost the coastline every summer...

the US Antarctic Research Program's Palmer Station. Lipps Island: Antarctica Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands...

Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) is an international association that develops and promotes best practice in managing the support...

review of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic (excluding southern South America and the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands) species. British Antarctic Survey, Scientific...

portal Larsen Ice Shelf Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial...

The Antarctic flying squid (Todarodes filippovae) is a species of squid from the subfamily Todarodinae of the family Ommastrephidae, a family of pelagic...

Explorer or MV Explorer was a Liberian-registered cruise ship, used for Antarctic cruising. She was the first cruise ship to sink there, after striking...

Haigh Nunatak (Antarctic Gazetter 71°16′S 71°27′E / 71.267°S 71.450°E / -71.267; 71.450)* is a low peak 12 nautical miles (22 km) northeast of Pickering...

Promachocrinus fragarius, commonly known as the Antarctic strawberry feather star, is a species of stemless, free-swimming crinoid. It was one of several...

of polynyas: coastal polynyas, which can be found year-round near the Antarctic and Arctic coasts and are mainly created by strong winds pushing the ice...

Galium antarcticum, commonly known as Antarctic bedstraw or subantarctic bedstraw, is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family. It has a largely...

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (1997) after Henry Kennedy, Deputy Director of the Antarctic Peninsula System for ITT Antarctic Services, 1985–90,...

Klarius on an Antarctic expedition sponsored by Lars Christensen, on the resupply vessel M/S Thorshavn with instructions to look for Antarctic lands that...

Ridge. Descriptively named by Frank Debenham of British Antarctic Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition), 1910–13, who made a plane table survey of...

Force who served as Commanding Officer Antarctic Flight RAAF, which assisted the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) in 1954, 1956...

The Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund (AWR) is a non-governmental organization that funds research into the ecology of Antarctica. It was founded in 2015...

is a species of krill, sometimes called ice krill, crystal krill, or Antarctic coastal krill. It lives in the coastal waters around Antarctica, further...

The National Antarctic Scientific Center (NANC) (Ukrainian: Національний антарктичний науковий центр, romanized: Natsionalnyi antarktychnyi naukovyi tsentr...

Leniea is a genus of Antarctic marine red alga. The genus name of Leniea is in honour of Pieter J. Lenie (1923–2015) (Belgian-) American (captain of the...

non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency. It was the only non-government Antarctic base. The international...

seen from the air and examined from the ground by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957. It was so named because of the recovery of the expedition's...

Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston...

meltwater pulse 1B and the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a likely source. Finally, McKay and others suggested that recession of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have...

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1954–58) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). The lake was named by the Antarctic Names Committee...

McMurdo port is opened by an Icebreaker ship and ships can resupply the Antarctic bases. The sound extends approximately 55 kilometers (34 mi) in length...

Casey Bay is a large Antarctic bay indenting the coast of Enderby Land between Tange Promontory and Dingle Dome. The feature was observed from Australian...

considered one of the most treacherous voyages for ships to make. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which runs through it, meets no resistance from any...

(Hashidate Maru and Nisshin Maru No. 1), to once again hunt whales in the Antarctic and elsewhere. Nisshin Maru No. 1 (11,803 tons) was originally a standard...

person responsible for much of Scott Base development as head of the Antarctic Division of the DSIR was Bob Thomson. A 1994 review recognised Antarctica...

photographed by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. Mapped by Norway from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60, and...

genetic analyses and next-generation sequencing. In both the Arctic and Antarctic, Alphaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria and Flavobacteriia are the common...

Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is a British charity, registered in 1993 and re-registered in 2015. The UKAHT is a member of the Antarctic Heritage...

The Twelfth Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition by the Soviet Union to Antarctica. During this expedition, a new method was used for measuring...

Cryptopygus antarcticus, the Antarctic springtail, is a species of springtail native to Antarctica  and Australia. Cryptopygus antarcticus average 1–2...

fjords, and is protected as an Antarctic Specially Managed Area under the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. The Fildes Peninsula...

Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic. He is known for being a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, along...

vibranium/steel alloy shield. An alternate form of the material, known as Antarctic Vibranium, or Anti-Metal, has appeared in the Savage Land. Vibranium first...

Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for Howard T. Barnes, a Canadian physicist and pioneer of ice engineering. List of glaciers in the Antarctic Glaciology...

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. The glacier was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for John D.M. Cardell, English ophthalmic...

volunteer Antarctic explorer, at $1 per annum, for the 1939–1941 Byrd Polar Expedition to Antarctica, as part of the United States Antarctic Service. Mount...

food for many larger animals. In the Southern Ocean, one species, the Antarctic krill, makes up an estimated biomass of around 379 million tonnes (418...

the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, which have no permanent population and no communes. The French Southern and Antarctic Lands are divided into five...

States Antarctic Service, 1939–41; Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48; U.S. Navy photos, 1968. It was mapped by the British Antarctic Survey...

Island within the Chilean Antarctic claim, the Chilean Antarctic Territory, and also within the Argentine and British Antarctic claims. The Chilean government...

from the air by the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and were mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by...

British Antarctic Territory. Edith Ronne Land was named by Chile for Edith Ronne, who was the first woman to be a full member of an Antarctic team. She...

Australian states and territories, except for the Australian Antarctic Territory. The Australian Antarctic Territory is a territorial claim unrecognised by most...

The United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), often referred to as Byrd's Third Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition jointly sponsored...

The Symphony No. 8 (also called the Antarctic Symphony) is an orchestral composition by Peter Maxwell Davies, completed on 15 December 2001. Davies had...

Scale 1:50000 map. Insets: Sail Rock 1:10000. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2010 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic...

connection with China's efforts to maintain a scientific presence in the Antarctic. Although used primarily to support China's annual expeditions to Antarctica...

Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) (1949-1952), led by John Schjelderup Giæver, it was named Unneruskollen by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition...

(Borostomias antarcticus), also called the straightline dragonfish or Antarctic snaggletooth, is a species of fish in the family Stomiidae (barbeled dragonfishes)...

is still disputed between the Argentine Antarctic Territory, British Antarctic Territory and Chilean Antarctic Territory. Alexander Kumar; Sophie Duong...

Russian general practitioner and surgeon who took part in the Sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Novolazarevskaya Station from September 1960 to October...

ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0 Rezovski Creek. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian...

which are a group of Antarctic islands. It is the remnant of a subduction zone where the defunct Phoenix Plate, now part of the Antarctic Plate, subducted...

The sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (Den norske antarktisekspedisjonen) was a scientific expedition to Queen Maud's Land in Antarctica. The expedition...

Whalers of the Midnight Sun: A Story of Modern Whaling in the Antarctic (1934) is an adventure novel for children by Australian author Alan J. Villiers...

Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1949–51, and named after d'Urville's flagship, the Astrolabe...

on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern counterpart is the Antarctic Circle. The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude for which at...

Glacier (80°17′S 26°09′W / 80.283°S 26.150°W / -80.283; -26.150) is an Antarctic glacier of at least 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) in length flowing...

Arctic and Antarctic Administration, often abbreviated as the CAA (previously the Chinese Antarctic Administration of the State Antarctic Research Committee)...

condition that occurs in individuals who "winter over" throughout the Antarctic (or Arctic) winter, which can last seven to eight months. It has been...

Hebrizelm Hill. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in...

1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Stephen V. Shabica, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) biologist and...

1820 edition of the Imperial Magazine, London. Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S Livingston Island SCAR South Shetland...

Tierra del Fuego island, and the Strait of Magellan. It also includes the Antarctic territory claimed by Chile. Despite its large area, much of the land in...

(normally infrared) transitions. Blue ice is exposed in areas of the Antarctic where there is no net addition or subtraction of snow. That is, any snow...

published by the Istituto Geografico in Forlì, Italy. List of glaciers in the Antarctic Glaciology "Il Polo Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United...

9 July 1931 – 2 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica...

The Antarctic Flight was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircraft flight. It operated from RAAF Base Laverton and Mawson Station. The flight was responsible...

territorial claim in Antarctica, which is held in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty System (e.g. Norway and New Zealand) New surveys occasionally change...

the north shore of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It faces the Bransfield Strait. The Duroch Islands lie off...

participated in Antarctic expeditions and contributed to Antarctic scientific research, researching the effects of ozone hole dynamics on the Antarctic ecosystem...

from the air by the United States Antarctic Service, 1940, the U.S. Navy, 1966, and was surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey, 1970–73. It was named by...

Antarctica is referring to all forms of plastic debris that are found in the Antarctic continent, islands, and the Southern Ocean. Despite being the most remote...

region), Wilson's storm petrels and Antarctic skuas. The islands are protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA)...

Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston...

aerial photographs, 1960–1962, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Olan L. Dockery, a U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 pilot...

Walter Palmer, one of the town's founders. During the 1810s the hides of Antarctic Ocean seals were highly valued as items for trade with China. Palmer served...

The gyre is formed by interactions between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Antarctic Continental Shelf. The gyre is located in the Weddell...

of Antarctica, its history, geography, people, etc. Adie, Raymond J. - Antarctic Geology and Geophysics: Proceedings of a symposium, Oslo, Norway, August...

The Antarctic armless flounder (Mancopsetta maculata) is a species of southern flounder found on subantarctic shelves, around Antarctic islands, and banks...

exploration with sealing. The area of Enderby Land is part of the Australian Antarctic Territory. Coastal features include Amundsen Bay, Casey Bay and Cape Monakov...

photographed by several American expeditions: United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41; Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48; United States Navy photos...

Ó Cuirín; c. 16 February 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving (AM). Crean was...

on the Antarctic Peninsula. It was first charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names...

change on the Antarctic, to the rest of the world. Regan returned to Antarctica in November 2010, leading the Moon Regan TransAntarctic Expedition. The...

Squadron off Valparaíso in Chile. During 1773, James Cook sailed beyond the Antarctic Circle, noting with pride in his journal that he was "undoubtedly the...

misfortunes, Dumont expressed his intention to leave this time for the Antarctic with Astrolabe only, in order to attempt to reach the South Magnetic Pole...

According to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Oom Island is "a small island 0.93 kilometres (0.5 nmi) northeast of Campbell Head, off the coast of...

on George V Coast in Antarctica. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Lieutenant...

by the Wilkins Ice Shelf. It is located on the southwest side of the Antarctic Peninsula between the concave western coastline of Alexander Island and...

Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston...

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Australia or Antarctica. The genus must appear on the List of dinosaur genera. At least...

photos taken from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1956. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for E...

conditional circular line (arc) referring either to the Arctic Circle or the Antarctic Circle. These are two of the keynote circles of latitude (parallels)....

pronunciation: [il kʁozɛ]; or, officially, Archipel Crozet [aʁʃipɛl -]) are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. They form one...

The Antarctic Survey Vessel (ASV) Wyatt Earp (ASV 01/DMS 329) is a survey launch operated by the Australian Hydrographic Service since 1993. Based on...

The Eleventh Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition by the Soviet Union to Antarctica, based at Mirny Station. The expedition did research into...

daughter of William Horlick who was a contributor to the 1933–1935 Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Despite its height, the volcano's extremely remote location...

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) is a global coalition of environmental non-governmental organizations with more than 20 members in 15...

ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4) Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since...

in the Sverdrup Mtns. Mount Krüger was discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Captain Alfred Ritscher, and named for...

ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4 Vazov Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian...

and commercials.[citation needed] Hoyt developed the episodic comedy Antarctic...huh?. An early draft screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art San...

aviation firsts. In 1939, he accompanied Byrd again to the Antarctic on the United States Antarctic Service Expedition. After World War II, Schlossbach was...

to be unidirectional from fin whales to blue whales. Comparison with Antarctic blue whales showed that this hybridization began after the separation...

Metridia gerlachei is a copepod found primarily in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters. In length, the female M. gerlachei is between about 3.25 and 4...

Antarctic Territory, some 3,000 km (1,900 mi) south of Hobart, Tasmania. The huts were erected and occupied by members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition...

Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher. Mapped from air photos and surveys by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60;...

his uncle, John Ross, and in four led by William Edward Parry: in the Antarctic, he led his own expedition from 1839 to 1843. Ross was born in London...

Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston...

New Zealand's closed sealing season when vessels were poaching on sub-Antarctic islands under the Colony's jurisdiction but claiming they got the seal...

the first Uruguayan Antarctic expedition, arrived in King George Island in order to establish a permanent base on the Antarctic Continent. It was a scientific...

photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. It was mapped from air photos and surveys by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60, remapped...

Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher. Mapped from air photos and surveys by Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition...

Operation Highjump, 1946–47, the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1957–58, and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, 1959 and 1962. It was...

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian of the Antarctic and biographer of Captain...

The First Soviet Antarctic Expedition was a 1955–1957 expedition to Antarctica by explorers from the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Somov. The principal...

1821 and 1935, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009). Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica...

fishing boat that was used as the expedition vessel during the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910 to 1912. Substantially smaller than other expedition...

Squadron Leader Peter Clemence. The site is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.169, principally because...

Antarctica. Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base Deception Station List of Antarctic research stations List of Antarctic field camps Antarctic Station Catalogue (PDF)...

Australian Antarctic Division Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) PDF Map of the Australian Antarctic Territory...

Navy air photos, 1961–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Jimmy L. Gowan, U.S. Navy Medical Corps, officer...

Jona Island is an island off the western coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It is one of the smaller of the Bennett Islands, lying in Hanusse...

one genus with two species. They breed on subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the snowy sheathbill migrates to the Falkland Islands and...

the coast. The few animals that live on the mainland are birds such as Antarctic terns, grey-headed albatross, imperial shag, snowy sheathbill and the...

It was named in association with Mount Erebus by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott. A large calving event...

German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1958–59; remapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition...

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica...

ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4) Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since...

Earth's polar regions: the Arctic ice pack of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the Southern Ocean. Polar packs naturally undergo significant...

relative of the Antarctic ancestor of all octopus species that lived 30 million years ago. Their habitats include; Southern Ocean, Antarctic Ocean, and South...

was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) under Adrien de Gerlache, 1897–99. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC)...

that are buried underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are probably even larger. It is part of the West Antarctic Rift System along with 18 other known...

The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), which has a circum-Antarctic distribution in the Southern Ocean, is far less known than the distantly...

These biomes are located at the poles of Earth, covering much of the Antarctic in the southern hemisphere, and in the northern hemisphere extending from...

the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and the French Polar Expeditions to re-supply their respective Antarctic stations. Afterwards acquired...

This list includes all the main Antarctic exploration ships that were employed in the seventeen expeditions that took place in the era between 1897 and...

Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic...

The true seal tribe Lobodontini, collectively known as the Antarctic seals or lobodontin seals, consist of four species of seals in four genera: the crabeater...

modified for use on the 1956 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, being designated Auster Antarctic (Auster Model C4). The aircraft had extra radio...

Hyperoglyphe antarctica, the Antarctic butterfish, bluenose warehou, deepsea trevally, blue eye trevalla, blue-eye cod, bluenose sea bass, or deep sea...

The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (abbreviated CEMP) is a program set up in 1985...

ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since...

Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian...

chrysolophus) is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. One of eight species of crested penguin, it is very closely...

taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Alan F.C. Pollard (1877–1948), English...

'the best man far and away in the ship'. Before joining Scott's next Antarctic expedition in 1910, he served as an instructor at the Royal Naval College...

Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs, 1953 The status of the leopard seal at Heard Island and Macquarie Island, 1948-1950, Antarctic Division...

Antarctica. From 1956 to 1959 it was home to "Base W" of the British Antarctic Survey and closed after the end of the International Geophysical Year...

the Antarctic ice sheet, including from the Mac. Robertson Land region of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet; the Ross Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice...

first mapped by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and named for...

the Antarctic Circle. Sealers sighted the islands in 1853 but did not land. In 1948, the islands were surveyed by the Australian National Antarctic Research...

Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB) is a component of the WCRP. It aims to establish and maintain a network of drifting buoys in the Antarctic sea-ice zone...

at Little America V. The islands are protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No.160 because they support...

toothfish) Dissostichus mawsoni Norman, 1937 (Antarctic toothfish) The Patagonian toothfish and the Antarctic toothfish are markedly similar in appearance...

research ship witnessed the creature as it surfaced near their ship off the Antarctic coast. Originally thinking it was a submarine, they went to take a closer...

Georgia. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Dr. P. W. G. Tanner, a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) geologist who worked...

Antarctic Foundation one of Australian's research bases on the Antarctic east coast. After more than 100 years, I brought Racoviță back in Antarctic regions...

maple forest, a Gulf of St. Lawrence estuary, Labrador Coast, and Sub-Antarctic Islands. It is one of two large-scale enclosed ecosystem structures in...

photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39, and mapped from air photos and surveys by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60. It...

photos, 1960–63. It was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Donald C. Barnett, USGS topographic engineer, a...

The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) is a teaching and research institute of the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania. IMAS was...