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The study uses a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the trends in mean height from 1985 to 2019. 1,344 academics having collated the results of 2,181 studies covering 65 million people. [218] Their findings are based on selected material rather than all available.
The population of people doing and supporting scientific research on the continent and its nearby islands south of 60 degrees south latitude (the region covered by the Antarctic Treaty) [2] varies from approximately 4,000 in summer to 1,000 in winter. In addition, approximately 1,000 personnel including ship's crew and scientists doing onboard ...
In 1525, Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces discovered the Drake Passage while sailing south from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan. [2] Because of this, the Drake Passage is referred to as the "Mar de Hoces (Sea of Hoces)" in Spanish maps and sources, while almost always in the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries it is mostly known as “Pasaje de Drake” (in Argentina, mainly), or ...
Map of the Antarctic Peninsula, with the Antarctandes Range in Graham Land & Palmer Land regions. The Antarctandes (Antartandes in Spanish), also known as the Antarctic Peninsula cordillera, [1] is the mountain range that is located on the northern Antarctic Peninsula, in the Graham Land and Palmer Land regions of Antarctica and may also be considered to extend across the continent.
Gabriel de Castilla Base [2] is a Spanish research station located on Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.The station was constructed in late 1989. [3] [4] The station is named for Gabriel de Castilla, a 17th-century Spanish navigator and, according to some reports, the first person to sight mainland Antarctica.
The average height of 19-year-old Dutch orphans in 1865 was 160 cm (5 ft 3 in). [77] From 1830 to 1857, the average height of a Dutch person decreased, even while Dutch real GNP per capita was growing at an average rate of more than 0.5% per year. The worst decline was in urban areas that in 1847, the urban height penalty was 2.5 cm (1.0 in).
The Spanish Antarctic station Gabriel de Castilla (in Spanish) Don Gabriel de Castilla, primer avistador de la Antártica, by Chilean historian Isidoro Vázquez de Acuña (Spanish language) (in Spanish) Revista Hidalguia num. 232-233 1992 p.356 et seq This links to another, incomplete but substantial, version of the above.
In the Hebrew Bible, as well as non-Jewish ancient texts from the region, the Northwest Semitic term Rephaite or Repha'im (cf. the plural word in Hebrew: רְפָאִים, romanized: rəfāʾīm; Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎔𐎜𐎎, romanized: rpʾum, [1] Phoenician: 𐤓𐤐𐤀𐤌, romanized: rpʾm) [2] refers either to a people of greater-than-average height and stature in Deuteronomy 2:10-11, or ...