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MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica image map. National Snow and Ice Data Center, digital media. Metadata for Antarctica's Coastline and Ice Sheet Grounding Line Files: ...
A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique (' opposite to the Arctic ') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus (' opposite to the north ').
USGS TerraWeb: Satellite Image Map of Antarctica (archived 1 March 2005) United States Antarctic Resource Center (USARC) Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine; BEDMAP (archived 25 January 2005) Antarctic Digital Database (Topographic data for Antarctica, including web map browser) Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA; USGS web pages)
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<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 ...
The Antarctic Circle is the northernmost latitude in the Southern Hemisphere at which the centre of the sun can remain continuously above the horizon for twenty-four hours; as a result, at least once each year at any location within the Antarctic Circle the centre of the sun is visible at local midnight, and at least once the centre of the sun is below the horizon at local noon.
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