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This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty, claims to sovereignty over lands south of 60° S are not asserted. [1]
Bouvet Island is one of the most remote islands in the world. [50] The closest land is Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, which is 1,700 km (1,100 mi) to the south, [7]: 58 and Gough Island, 1,845 km (1,146 mi) to the north. [51] The closest inhabited location is Tristan da Cunha island, 2,250 km (1,400 mi) to the northwest. [19]
Macquarie Island is a subantarctic island in the south-western Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. [1] Regionally part of Oceania and politically a part of Tasmania , Australia , since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Most of the islands lie near the southeast edge of the largely submerged continent centred on New Zealand called Zealandia, which was riven from Australia 60–85 million years ago, and from Antarctica 85–130 million years ago.
Antarctica is the southernmost continent on Earth. While Antarctica has never had a permanent human population, it has been explored by various groups, and many locations on and around the continent have been described. This page lists notable places in and immediately surrounding the Antarctic continent, including geographic features, bodies ...
Puerto Toro is considered to be a sub-Antarctic tundra climate in the Köppen climate classification, despite the fact that it is surrounded by forests.However, it still has very mild winters for a tundra climate and if it had a daily mean in any month more than 50 F (10 C), it would be a Cfc (subpolar oceanic) or a cold semidesert (it has less than 20 in of rain a year) climate, not a Dfc ...
Half Moon Island is a minor Antarctic island, lying in McFarlane Strait 1.35 km (0.84 mi) north of Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 171 hectares (420 acres). [1] The Argentine Cámara Base is located on the island. It is only accessible by sea and by ...
Geologic map of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Seymour Island or Marambio Island, is an island in the chain of 16 major islands around the tip of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America. [2] It lies within the section of the island chain that resides off the west side of the ...