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  2. Territorial claims in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica.These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and study facilities within their respective claimed territories; however, a number of such facilities are located outside of the area claimed by their ...

  3. Geography of Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Antarctica is the largest ice desert in the world. Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet , the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water . Averaging at least 1.6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2.5 km below sea level ...

  4. McMurdo Volcanic Group - Wikipedia

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    The McMurdo Volcanic Group is a large group of Cenozoic volcanic rocks in the western Ross Sea and central Transantarctic Mountains areas of Antarctica. [1] It is one of the largest provinces of alkaline volcanism in the world, having formed as a result of continental rifting along the West Antarctic Rift System.

  5. Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Antarctica is to the right of the Transantarctic Mountains and Western Antarctica is to the left. Positioned asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle (one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the world), Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.

  6. West Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Geographical map of Antarctica. Lying on the Pacific Ocean side of the Transantarctic Mountains, West Antarctica comprises the Antarctic Peninsula (with Graham Land and Palmer Land) and Ellsworth Land, Marie Byrd Land and King Edward VII Land, offshore islands such as Adelaide Island, and ice shelves, notably the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf on the Weddell Sea, and the Ross Ice Shelf on the Ross Sea.

  7. Lists of places in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Borders: No land boundaries: Highest point: Vinson Massif, 4,897 m (16,066 ft) ... There are a number of mountain lists for Antarctica: List of mountains of Enderby Land;

  8. List of political and geographic borders - Wikipedia

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    Borders (alphabetical order) Continents Countries Oceans / Seas; Americas: Northern / Western / Southern: Arctic Ocean / Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean / Baffin Bay / Beaufort Sea / Bering Sea / Caribbean Sea / Chukchi Sea / Greenland Sea / Gulf of Mexico / Hudson Bay / Labrador Sea: Antarctica: Eastern / Southern / Western: Southern Ocean ...

  9. McMurdo Dry Valleys - Wikipedia

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    McMurdo Dry Valleys, Landsat 7 imagery acquired on December 18, 1999 The Dry Valleys are so named because of their extremely low humidity and lack of snow or ice cover. They are also dry because, in this location, the mountains are sufficiently high that they block seaward-flowing ice from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet from reaching the Ross