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Oceanic islands between the Equator, 60°S, 20°W, and 115°E are the only Southern Hemisphere lands (besides East Timor) outside the five southern nuclear-weapon-free zones. Bouvet Island and the Kerguelen Islands are Antarctic islands on this map but outside the Antarctic NWFZ. Australian islands are parts of the South Pacific NWFZ.
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]
Okino Torishima Island Ishigaki Island (southernmost inhabited point) Cape Sata (four main Islands) 20°25′N 24°44′N 30°59′N Bangladesh: Chera Dwip, St. Martin's Island border with Myanmar at Dakhinpara, Teknaf Upazila, Chittagong Division (mainland) 20°35′N 20°45′N Western Sahara: Cape Blanc (Ras Nouadibhou) 20°47′N Morocco*
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 ...
[10] [11] [12] Ushuaia is located in a wide bay on the southern coast of the island of Tierra del Fuego, on the northern shore of the Beagle Channel; hence, it is further north than Puerto Williams. Puerto Williams ( 54°56′S 67°37′W / 54.933°S 67.617°W / -54.933; -67.617 , population: 1,868), located on Isla Navarino , is ...
Simplified geological map of the Kerguelen Islands Mont Ross. The Kerguelen Islands form an emerged part of the submerged Kerguelen Plateau, which has a total area nearing 949,000 km 2 (366,000 sq mi). [22] The plateau was built by volcanic eruptions associated with the Kerguelen hotspot, and now lies on the Antarctic Plate. [23]
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.
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 ...