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The United States maintains the southernmost base, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, and the largest base and research station in Antarctica, McMurdo Station. The second-southernmost base is the Chinese Kunlun Station at 80°25′2″S during the summer season, and the Russian Vostok Station at 78°27′50″S during the winter season.
Name Year Formation Location Notes Images Antarctopelta: 2006 Snow Hill Island Formation (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) Antarctica: Possessed unusual caudal vertebrae that may have supported a "macuahuitl" as in Stegouros [1] Atlascopcosaurus: 1989 Eumeralla Formation (Early Cretaceous, Aptian to Albian) Australia: Only known from remains of ...
United States Antarctic Program. "Amundsen–Scott Station webcam". NOAA. "Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station". National Science Foundation. "Antarctic Facilities". COMNAP. Archived from the original on April 24, 2008. "Antarctic Facilities Map (Edition 5)" (PDF). COMNAP. July 24, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2011 ...
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4) Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica.
Antarctica: Non- Avian Dinosaurs, Birds Seymour Island [Note 2] Sobral Formation: Paleocene (Danian) Antarctica: Vega Island: López de Bertodano Formation: Late Cretaceous – Early Paleocene (Maastrichtian – Danian) Antarctica: Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Birds Longing Peninsula: Nordenskjöld Formation: Jurassic: Antarctica: Mount Kirkpatrick ...
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. Antarctic Peninsula map Location of the Antarctic Peninsula within Antarctica
Davis is a base for scientific research programs including the study of viruses and bacteria using molecular genetic techniques in glacial lakes, the impact of environmental change and pollution on Antarctic marine ecosystems, atmospheric research, measuring algae growth as an important food source for tiny marine herbivores such as zooplankton, the impact of climate change, including the ...
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 ...