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In Antarctica, Google Street View is available on selected locations. [1]Views of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, were added September 2010. [2]Ceremonial South Pole, Shackleton's Hut, Discovery Hut, added July 2012.
Blurred intentionally on Bing Maps. [15] Rendered in lower resolution on Google Maps and Mapquest. Heliport [16] in El Ejido: Spain: Square blurred on Google and Bing. Visible e.g. in HERE WeGo and Yandex.
A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique (' opposite to the Arctic ') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus (' opposite to the north ').
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.The island is situated 245 kilometres (152 miles) north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, 1,253 kilometres (779 miles) west-southwest of South Georgia, 935 kilometres (581 miles) south of the Falkland Islands, and 885 ...
Typical of inland Antarctica, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station experiences an ice cap climate with BWk precipitation patterns. [30] The peak season of summer lasts from December to mid February. At the Amundsen–Scott the average annual precipitation is approximately 50 millimeters (2 inches), primarily falling as snow. [ 31 ]
Sources: GCM [1] Landings [2] Google Maps [3] AIP Chile [4] The Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin Airport ( IATA : TNM , ICAO : SCRM ) is on King George Island , part of Chile's Antártica commune in Antarctica , and is the northernmost airport in the continent.
In September 2010, Google added Street View imagery of Half Moon Island to its Google Earth and Google Maps services. [4] The expansion of Google Street View onto the island means all seven continents had imagery through the service. [5] As the island has no roads, the images appear to have been taken with a camera on a tripod.
USGS TerraWeb: Satellite Image Map of Antarctica (archived 1 March 2005) United States Antarctic Resource Center (USARC) Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine; BEDMAP (archived 25 January 2005) Antarctic Digital Database (Topographic data for Antarctica, including web map browser) Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA; USGS web pages)