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The Antarctic gateway cities are five cities on the rim of the Southern Ocean through which nearly all cargo and personnel bound for Antarctica pass. [1] From west to east, they are Punta Arenas, Chile; Ushuaia, Argentina; Cape Town, South Africa; Hobart, Australia; and Christchurch, New Zealand. As Antarctica is a low-resource environment with ...
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 ...
More than 850 million people live in the Southern Hemisphere, representing around 10–12% of the total global human population. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Of those 850 million people, more than 203 million live in Brazil , the largest country by land area in the Southern Hemisphere, while more than 150 million live in Java , the most populous island in the ...
Palmer Land. Palmer Land) is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape AgassizThis application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names and the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica ...
<p>Chances are you make it through most days without sparing a thought for Antarctica. At just over 5.4 million square miles, it's a massive chunk of land that is nearly twice the size of ...
Oates Coast) is the portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Hudson and Cape Williams It forms the coast of Oates Land , part of the Australian claim to the Antarctic. The eastern portion of this coast was discovered in February 1911 by Lieutenant Harry Pennell , Royal Navy , commander of the expedition ship Terra Nova during the British ...
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Map showing the Cape Peninsula, illustrating the positions of the Cape Town City Centre, Table Mountain, the main mountains and peaks that make up the Peninsula, and the Cape of Good Hope. The courses of the warm Agulhas current (red) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold Benguela current (blue) along the west coast.