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The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse (SPoT), [2] or McMurdo–South Pole Highway [3] is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice [4] in Antarctica that links McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, both operated by the National Science Foundation of the United States. [5]
The Louisville Ridge stretches diagonally across this bathymetric map of the southwest Pacific Ocean towards the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge at right bottom The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PAR, Antarctic Pacific Ridge, South Pacific Rise, South Pacific Ridge) [ 4 ] is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on the seafloor of the South Pacific ...
Antarctica and surrounding islands in relation to the Antarctic Convergence and the 60th parallel south. The following list of island groups contains the largest or most notable islands in their respective group. A more detailed list of islands in a given group may be found on their respective pages, when applicable.
وحدة:Location map/data/Antarctica; وحدة:Location map/data/Antarctica/شرح; Usage on arz.wikipedia.org قالب:Location map Antarctica; Usage on ast.wikipedia.org Monte Hope (L'Antártida) Base Vostok; Base Antártica Xuan Carlos I; Base Concordia; Monte Erebus; Macizu Vinson; Montes Tresantárticos; Módulu:Mapa de llocalización ...
The Antarctic Convergence is a zone approximately 32 to 48 km (20 to 30 mi) wide, varying in latitude seasonally and in different longitudes, extending across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans between the 48th and 61st parallels of south latitude.
In the Faroe Islands, wild, unpredictable weather — fierce winds and rain, and thick fog that settles like a curtain — can sometimes make travel by car or ferry problematic.
At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the planet as a whole, less so.
González Videla Base is an inactive research station on the Antarctic mainland at Waterboat Point in Paradise Bay.It is named after Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, who in the 1940s became the first chief of state of any nation to visit Antarctica.