The area south of the AntarcticCircle is known as the Antarctic , and the zone immediately to the north ... hemisphere is the Arctic Circle . Every place south of the AntarcticCircle experiences a period ... does not rise. On the AntarcticCircle these events occur, in principle, exactly once per year, at the December ... much of the area within the AntarcticCircle. There is no permanent human population on Earth south of the AntarcticCircle. There are, however, several Antarctic research centers from various nations ... north of the AntarcticCircle. See Demographics of Antarctica . Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the AntarcticCircle passes through class wikitable plainrowheaders scope col ... through the Weddell Sea and into an unnamed part of the ocean See also Arctic Circle Equator Antarctic ... Reflist External links http www.antarctic circle.org Antarcticcircle org http www.bugbog.com maps polar regions antarcticcircle map.html Map geographical coordinates Category Lines of latitude ... antarctic ru sah simple AntarcticCircle sk Ju n pol rny ...One source date August 2010 Refimprove date August 2010 stack Image World map with antarctic circle.svg thumb 350px World map showing the AntarcticCircle in red. Image Antarctic circle.svg thumb 350px Map of the Antarctic with the AntarcticCircle in blue. The AntarcticCircle is one of the five major circle of latitude circles or parallels of latitude that mark maps of the Earth . For 2012, it is the parallel of latitude that runs Circle of latitude Polar Convert ref http www.neoprogrammics.com ... rather than a point. Mirages on the Antarctic continent tend to be even more spectacular than in Arctic ... remains under the horizon. Due to gradual changes in the tilt of the Earth s axis, the AntarcticCircle is slowly moving. See circle of latitude Movement of the Tropical and Polar circles circles ... name Antarctica scope row Antarctica Enderby Land Territory List of Antarctic territorial claims ... more details
CircleAntarctic Convergence Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Bouvet Island Kerguelen ...for the ship Antarctic ship Image Antarctica Region.png thumb right Antarctic Image SPSM.05.jpg thumb ... Grytviken museum.jpg thumb right Grytviken Museum in South Georgia . The Antarctic IPAc en icon ... region around the North Pole . The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelf ice shelves , waters, and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence . ref http www.scar.org Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR ref The region ... of the international Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR ... of a line joining specified points along Circle of latitude parallels of latitude and Meridian geography ... of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ref The implementation of the Convention is managed ... surveillance. Most of the Antarctic region is situated south of 60 S latitude parallel, and is governed in accordance with the international legal regime of the Antarctic Treaty System . ref http www.nsf.gov od opp antarct anttrty.jsp Antarctic Treaty ref The Treaty area covers the continent itself ... situated between 60 S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north ... Islands Australia . Kerguelen Islands France also an EU Overseas territory are situated in the Antarctic ... and thus outside the Antarctic region. Society The first Antarctic land discovered was the island ... sloop of war Mirny . The first human born in the Antarctic was Solveig Gunbj rg Jacobsen born on 8 October 1913 in Grytviken , South Georgia. The Antarctic region had no indigenous population when ... the Antarctic Peninsula area especially the South Shetland Islands and South Georgia and the South ... and remote wilderness, was noted at a conference in New Zealand by experts from signatories to the Antarctic Treaty . The definitive results of the conference would be presented at the Antarctic Treaty ... more details
The Circle may refer to The Circle file system , a peer to peer distributed file system written mainly in Python The Circle play The Circle play , a 1921 play by Somerset Maugham starring John Drew, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie Carter The Circle TV program , an Australian morning show on Network Ten The Circle 1925 film The Circle 1925 film , a film directed by Frank Borzage adapted from the Somerset Maugham play The Circle 2000 film The Circle 2000 film , a film directed by Jafar Panahi The Circle 2009 film The Circle 2009 film , a film directed by Nawaf Al Jahani The Circle Star Trek Deep Space Nine The Circle Star Trek Deep Space Nine , the second episode of the second season of the television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine The Circle Fear Itself The Circle Fear Itself , the thirteenth and last episode of the television series Fear Itself The Circle comics The Circle comics , a Wonder Woman story arc The Circle Image Comics The Circle Image Comics , an Image Comics series The Circle, Kingston upon Hull , a demolished cricket ground in Kingston upon Hull, England The Circle Interchange in Chicago, where the Dan Ryan, Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways meet The Circle School , Sudbury School located in Harrisburg PA and founded in 1984 The Circle Trilogy , a series of novels by Ted Dekker Another name for the Magic circle of ritual magic The Circle, a technique used by George Remus to smuggle illegal wines into the United States during the Prohibition in the United States Prohibition period In music The Circle Wipers album The Circle Wipers album The Circle B z album The Circle B z album The Circle Bon Jovi album The Circle Bon Jovi album The Circle Ragnar S lberg album The Circle Ragnar S lberg album A song by Ocean Colour Scene on the album Moseley Shoals A song by Circle II Circle on the album Watching in Silence See also Circle disambiguation disambiguation fr The Circle it The Circle pl The Circle tr The Circle ... more details
of the Convergence. See also AntarcticAntarcticCircleAntarctic Circumpolar Wave Southern Ocean Antarctic ...Image Antarctica Region.png thumb 200px right Antarctic Convergence The Antarctic Convergence is a curve continuously encircling Antarctica where cold, northward flowing Antarctic waters meet the relatively warmer waters of the subantarctic . Antarctic waters predominantly sink beneath subantarctic waters, while associated zones of mixing and upwelling create a zone very high in marine productivity, especially for Antarctic krill . This line, like the Arctic tree line , is a natural boundary rather than an artificial one, like a line of latitude. It not only separates two hydrology hydrological regions , but also separates areas of distinctive marine life associations and of different climate s. There is no Arctic equivalent, due to the amount of land surrounding the northern polar region. History The Antarctic Convergence was first crossed by Anthony de la Roch in 1675, ref R.K. Headland, The Island of South Georgia , Cambridge University Press, 1984. ref and described by Sir Edmund Halley in 1700. ref Alan Gurney, Below the Convergence Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699 1839 , Penguin Books, New York, 1998. ref Location The Antarctic Convergence is actually a zone approximately convert 32 to 48 km mi abbr on wide, varying somewhat in latitude seasonally and in different longitude s, extending across the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic , Pacific Ocean Pacific , and Indian Ocean Indian Ocean .... Although the northern boundary varies, for the purposes of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic ... of Antarctic Marine Living Resources 1980, Article 1 4 . ref Although this zone is a mobile one, it usually ... del Fuego and Macquarie Island lie north of the Antarctic Convergence. The Kerguelen Islands lie ... go graphic the antarctic convergence Map of Antarctic Convergence Category Environment of Antarctica Category Antarctic region Category Southern Ocean bg ca Converg ncia Ant rtica ... more details
reaches north of the AntarcticCircle, is the most northerly part of Antarctica, it has the mildest ... the Arctic Circle during the Cretaceous Period. ref name Anderson1999a Anderson, J.B. 1999 Antarctic ...Image Antpen en.png thumb Antarctic Peninsula map. Image Antarctica map indicating Antarctic Peninsula.JPG thumb Location of Antarctic Peninsula within Antarctica . The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost ... in Antarctic as it extends 1300 km from a line between Cape Adams Weddell Sea and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands . Beneath the ice sheet covering the Antarctic Peninsula, it consists .... ref name Stewart2011a Stewart, J. 2011 Antarctic An Encyclopedia McFarland & Company Inc, New York. 1776 pp. ISBN 9780786435906. ref The Antarctic Peninsula is currently dotted with numerous research ... claims by Argentine Antarctica Argentina , Chilean Antarctic Territory Chile and British Antarctic ... side of the Antarctic Peninsula. File Antarctica 5 , Adelaide Island, Webb Island.JPG thumb Off the coast ... The first sighting of Antarctic Peninsula is disputed but apparently occurred in 1820. The most likely first sighting of the Antarctic mainland, which was also the Antarctic Peninsula, was probably ... William Smith were the first to chart a part of the Antarctic Peninsula just three days later ... of the Antarctic Peninsula, Graham Land , in 1832. ref name Stewart2011a ref name aga1 cite book ... from competition. ref name Stewart2011a Between 1901 and 1904, Otto Nordenski ld led the Swedish Antarctic ... on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 1902, aboard the Antarctica ship Antarctica which later sank ... on the name Antarctic Peninsula by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names US ACAN and UK APC in 1964 ... Graham Land the part of the Antarctic Peninsula northward of a line between Cape Jeremy and Cape ... Higgins Land, after the Chilean patriot and Antarctic visionary. Other Spanish countries call it Pen nsula ... Michael coauthors Charles Swithinbank title The prospects for Antarctic Minerals journal New Scientist ... more details
File Antarctic Bay.PNG thumb 300px right Antarctic Bay location File SG12 Antarctic Bay.jpg thumb Antarctic Bay Antarctic Bay is a bay convert 1 mi wide which recedes southwest convert 4 mi 0 , entered between Antarctic Point and Morse Point on the north coast of South Georgia . It was probably first sighted by a British expedition under James Cook in 1775, and was explored in 1902 by members of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition , under Otto Nordenski ld , who named it for their ship, the Antarctic ship Antarctic . An alternative defunct name for it was Woodward Harbour Mount Woodward is nearby . References usgs gazetteer id 486 coord 54 6 S 36 59 W display title Category Bays of South Georgia SouthGeorgia geo stub ... more details
About the shape and mathematical concept Refimprove date November 2010 Infobox polygon name Circle image CIRCLE 1.svg caption Circle illustration showing a radius, a diameter, the centre and circumference ... of circles that arise in nature. A circle is a simple shape of Euclidean geometry consisting of those ... and an exterior. In everyday use, the term circle may be used interchangeably to refer to either the boundary of the figure, or to the whole figure including its interior in strict technical usage, the circle is the former and the latter is called a Disk mathematics disk . A circle can be defined as the curve traced out by a point that moves so that its distance from a given point is constant. A circle ... limit 3 br clear all To avoid layout breaking when TOC is hidden Terminology A circle s diameter is the length of a line segment whose endpoint s lie on the circle and which passes through the centre. This is the largest distance between any two points on the circle. The diameter of a circle is twice the radius , or distance from the centre to the circle s boundary. The terms diameter and radius ... the outside of a circle. A chord geometry chord is a line segment whose endpoints lie on the circle. A diameter is the longest chord in a circle. A tangent to a circle is a straight line that touches the circle at a single point, while a Secant line secant is an extended chord a straight line cutting the circle at two points. An Arc geometry arc of a circle is any Connected space connected part of the circle s circumference. A Circular sector sector is a region bounded by two radii and an arc ... lying between the chord s endpoints. align left cellspacing 0 cellpadding 0 Image CIRCLE LINES.svg right thumb Chord, secant, tangent, and diameter. Image Circle slices.svg right thumb Arc, sector, and segment History The word circle derives from the Greek, kirkos a circle, from the base ker which means to turn or bend. The origins of the words circus and wikt circuit circuit are closely related. The circle ... more details
File Antarctic Sound.jpg thumb Iceberg s in the Antarctic Sound, 1996. Antarctic Sound is a body of water about convert 30 mi 1 long and from convert 7 to 12 mi 0 wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula . The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenski ld for the expedition ship Antarctic ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command of Carl Anton Larsen , was the first vessel to navigate it. Commons category Sounds of Antarctica References usgs gazetteer id 492 Coord 63 20 S 056 45 W scale 1000000 display title Category Sounds of Graham Land Category Landforms of Trinity Peninsula Category Landforms of the Joinville Island group TrinityPeninsula geo stub de Antarctic Sund fr D troit Antarctic ja ... more details
Antarctic Beech is a common name of two species in the genus Nothofagus Nothofagus antarctica in South America Nothofagus moorei in Australia disambig ... more details
The Antarctic Sun an online and print newspaper with News about the United States Antarctic Program USAP , the ice, and the people it is funded by the National Science Foundation contract no. PRSS 0000373 ref Name AboutTheSun cite web last The Antarctic Sun is produced by the U.S. Antarctic Program s prime contractor, Raytheon Polar Services Company RPSC title About The Antarctic Sun work publisher U. S. Antarctic Program date 2007 10 26 url http antarcticsun.usap.gov aboutTheSun format Web doi accessdate 2007 11 11 ref written and published in McMurdo Station , Antarctica . ref Name NSFNews cite web title News work As a federally funded program, the USAP is dedicated to inform the public of its activities and results publisher National Science Foundation date October 3, 2005 url http www.usap.gov usapgov news format Web doi accessdate 2007 11 11 ref The weekly publication has been covering cutting edge science for the National Science Foundation every austral summer since 1996 1997 ref Name tenyears cite web last Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor title Ten years and counting work News Article publisher The Antarctic Sun date November 1, 2007 url http antarcticsun.usap.gov features contentHandler.cfm?id 1262 format Web doi accessdate 2007 11 11 ref with the full archive of past issues available on line at http antarcticsun.usap.gov pastIssues . References Reflist External links http antarcticsun.usap.gov The Antarctic Sun Official website, United States Antarctic Program br DEFAULTSORT Antarctic Sun, The Category Communications in Antarctica Category United States Antarctic Program Category McMurdo Station Category Newspapers newspaper stub Antarctica stub cs The Antarctic Sun ... more details
Refimprove date October 2010 Into A Circle In Two A Circle, In2a0 were an England English New Wave music New Wave Gothic Rock Goth duet music duo , formed in April 1985 by Bee Paul Hampshire and Barry Jepson , two former members of Getting the Fear . Career Lyrically and in attitude, they were influenced by Brion Gysin and his frequent collaborator William S. Burroughs . Particularly in respect to their use of North African folklore the stories, for instance, of 11th Century Ismaili warrior, Hassan i Sabah and magical rituals such as that of the goat boy god, Boujeloud . After writing and rehearsing for some months the band played their first concert at the Croydon Underground in December 1985, just prior to the release of their first Single music single Rise in2a0 Rise . Bee and Barry undertook the production, artwork and layouts. Rise quickly sold out it was a limited pressing of 5,000 copies and a short tour of England and Scotland followed in March 1986. The band was joined on three dates and subsequent ones by Rose McDowall , from Strawberry Switchblade . In July 1986 a deal was signed with Abstract Records, followed by the release of their next single, Inside Out Into a Circle song Inside Out . This was a success and live dates over the Christmas period followed. However this highlighted Bee and Barry s dissatisfaction with working with session musician s, and the band spent some time rehearsing and producing a new live format. The third single Forever in2a0 Forever was a reflection of the band s new direction, and featured Rose McDowall on backing vocalist backing vocals . It was co produced by Larry Steinbeck from Bronski Beat , and was a taster for their debut album ... refused to financially back them. In September 1989, Into A Circle took to the road one last time ... Inside Out Into a Circle song Inside Out 1986, Abstract, 12ABS042 Inside Out , Reward , Flow , Field ... Into a Circle Category English musical groups Category British New Wave musical groups Category ... more details
Antarctic Point is a headland which marks the west side of the entrance to Antarctic Bay on the north coast of South Georgia . It was charted in the period 1926&ndash 30 by Discovery Investigations personnel, who named it after nearby Antarctic Bay. References usgs gazetteer id 490 coord 54 4 S 36 58 W display title Category Headlands of South Georgia SouthGeorgia geo stub ... more details
Antarctic gyre may refer to any of the three ocean current s and ocean gyre gyres within the Southern Ocean Antarctic Circumpolar Current , an ocean current circulating around Antarctica Ross Gyre , an oceanic gyre in the Ross Sea Weddell Gyre , an oceanic gyre in the Weddell Sea disambig hr Antarkti ki vrtlozi sr ... more details
s, can survive in Antarctic oases. Geography The larger oases are McMurdo Dry Valleys , about convert ... Riffenburgh Riffenburgh, Beau Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, vol II Routledge, New York, 2007, ISBN ... About Antarctic oases and Dry valleys, British Antarctic Survey http www.rosssea.info landforms.html Pictures from various Antarctic oases and Dry valleys Category Landforms of Antarctica Category ... more details
Taxobox name Antarctic Silverfish image Pleuragramma antarcticum.jpg status LC status system iucn3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Actinopterygii ordo Perciformes subordo Notothenioidei familia Nototheniidae genus Pleuragramma genus authority George Albert Boulenger Boulenger , 1902 ref name Boulenger 1902 species P. antarcticum binomial Pleuragramma antarcticum binomial authority George Albert Boulenger Boulenger , 1902 ref name Boulenger 1902 George Albert Boulenger Boulenger G. A. 1902 . Rep. Voy. Southern Cross , p. 187. ref The Antarctic Silverfish , Pleuragramma antarcticum is a member of the suborder Notothenioidei of the Perciformes Perciform fishes. ref ITIS id 642933 taxon Pleuragramma antarcticum accessdate 11 March 2006 ref Pleuragramma antarcticum is a keystone species in the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean . ref name Bottaro 2009 Bottaro M., Oliveri D., Ghigliotti ... on two developmental stages of the Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum , a key species ... 009 9106 5 . ref While widely distributed around the Antarctic, the species appears to have largely disappeared from the western side of the northern Antarctic Peninsula based on a 2010 research cruise funded by the National Science Foundation under the U.S. Antarctic Program . ref cite news url http antarcticsun.usap.gov science contenthandler.cfm?id 2192 work The Antarctic Sun title Climate change may be to blame for disappearance of Antarctic silverfish ref Description It usually grows to approximately ... month November year 2005 ref This Antarctic marine fish is one of several in the region which produce antifreeze protein antifreeze glycopeptides as an adaptation against the extreme cold of Antarctic ... 7656179 title Antifreeze glycopeptides in the high Antarctic Silverfish Pleurogramma antarcticum ... Oncaea curvata . ref name Granata 2009 Antarctic silverfish are an important prey species for high ... Antarctic Silverfish Category Nototheniidae Category Fauna of Antarctica Category Animals described ... more details
Antarctic whales are any whales which are known to reside near Antarctica for at least part of the year. This includes Arnoux s beaked whale Blue whale Dwarf sperm whale Fin whale Gray s beaked whale Humpback whale Minke whale Antarctic minke whale Pygmy right whale Pygmy sperm whale Sei whale Southern bottlenose whale Southern right whale Sperm whale Strap toothed whale disambig Category Cetaceans References reflist http library.thinkquest.org 26442 html life whale.htm ThinkQuest.org ... more details
Taxobox name Antarctic Neosquid image Alluroteuthis antarcticus type specimen.jpg image caption Type specimen 14.5 mm ML regnum Animal ia phylum Mollusc a classis Cephalopod a ordo Teuthida familia Neoteuthidae genus Alluroteuthis genus authority Nils Hjalmar Odhner Odhner , 1923 species A. antarcticus binomial Alluroteuthis antarcticus binomial authority Nils Hjalmar Odhner Odhner , 1923 ref name tol Cite web url http tolweb.org Alluroteuthis antarcticus 19925 title Alluroteuthis antarcticus publisher Tree of Life Web Project date accessdate 9 November 2010 ref synonyms The Antarctic Neosquid Alluroteuthis antarcticus is the only neoteuthidae neosquid in the genus Alluroteuthis . ref name tol The tentacle s are relatively short compared to the Cephalopod arm arm s. Nils Hjalmar Odhner , discoverer of the species, suggested that Parateuthis tunicata , discovered by Johannes Thiele in 1920, might be a young Antarctic Neosquid. The validity of this suggestion is still in question. The name is derived from its habitat in the Antarctic Ocean . References Reflist Category Squid Category Animals described in 1923 ... more details
Infobox ship begin Infobox ship image Ship image File Antarctic 1.png 300 px Ship caption The Antarctic , Gothenburg harbor, 1901 Infobox ship career Hide header Ship name Antarctic Ship owner Ship operator ... capacity 346 brutto Ship crew Ship notes The Antarctic was a Sweden Swedish steamship built in Drammen ... this ship. The ship Antarctic was a barque with three masts and equipped with a steam engine . Build ... &struct DIV44 , Henrik Bull, The cruise of the Antarctic to the South Polar regions , 1896 ... of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University in Swedish , accessdate 2010 12 10 ref Initially the Antarctic ... his business to the Antarctic Ocean thereby needing capable ships. Foyn then purchased the Cap Nor , made extensive repairs and after completion renamed the ship Antarctic . ref name A ref name B ref name AA From 1893 the ship was deployed to the Antarctic ocean for whale hunting . In 1897 the ship ... sold the Antarctic to Otto Nordenskj ld who needed the ship for his Swedish Antarctic Expedition Antarctic expedition . The expeditions File Antarctic 2.png thumb 300 px The Antarctic leaving Gothenburg harbor, 1901. In 1893 the Antarctic captained by Leonard Kristensen set off on a whaling expedition ... had already made a landing on the Antarctic Peninsula on February 7, 1821, this claim can, however ... 12 10 ref ref name YY http www.south pole.com p0000052.htm , South Pole.com, An Antarctic Timeline, accessdate 2010 12 10 ref ref name Y1 http www.antarctic circle.org rosove.htm , Antarctic Circle.org, Antarctic voyages and expeditions, accessdate 2010 12 10 ref ref name Y2 http www.nzhistory.net.nz ... 10 ref ref name Y4 http www.antarctica.org.nz 02 history index.html , Antarctica.org, Antarctic History, accessdate 2010 12 10 ref In 1898 the Antarctic captained by Emil Nilsson carried Nathorst s polar ... part in Swedish , 1900, accessdate 2010 12 10 ref Later the same year the Antarctic carried Amdrup ... , accessdate 2010 12 10 ref On October 16, 1901 the Antarctic now captained by Carl Anton Larsen ... more details
Infobox Korean film name Antarctic Journal image Antarctic Journal.jpg caption Antarctic Journal poster writer Yim Pil sung br Bong Joon ho starring Song Kang ho br Yu Ji tae director Yim Pil sung producer Cha Seoung jae music Kenji Kawai cinematography Jeong Jeong hun editing distributor Showbox released Start date 2005 05 19 South Korea runtime 114 min. language Korean hangul hanja linktext rr Namgeukilgi mr Namg kilgi admissions 1,057,311 South Korea ref name koreanfilm http www.koreanfilm.org films2005.html boxoffice koreanfilm . koreanfilm. Retrieved March 04, 2012. ref budget 6,500,000 ref name Imdb Business http www.imdb.com title tt0462703 business Antarctic Journal . IMDB . Retrieved March 04, 2012. ref gross 5,568,811 ref name Boxofficemojo http boxofficemojo.com movies intl ?page &country KR&id fNAMGEUKILGI 28ANTA01 Antarctic Journal . Boxofficemojo . Retrieved March 04, 2012. ref Antarctic Journal 2005 in film 2005 is the feature film debut by South Korea n director Yim Pil sung . The movie mixes elements of psychological Thriller film thriller and classical horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility . The film had generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget over 6,500,000 and notable cast but wasn t a box office hit. Plot During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility POI , the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do hyung, discovers a Diary journal that was left behind by a United Kingdom British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min jae, another ... it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter? Cast Song Kang ho Choi Do ... antarctic Kyu Hyun Kim s review at Koreanfilm.org http www.imdb.com title tt0462703 Cinema of Korea ... SouthKorea film stub fr Antarctic Journal ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Antarctic Conquest title orig translator image image caption author Finn Ronne illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series subject Exploration publisher G. P. Putnam s Sons release date 1949 english release date media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages isbn NA preceded by followed by Antarctic Conquest the Story of the Ronne Expedition 1946 1948 is a 1949 science book by Norwegian American Antarctica Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne and science fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp , published in hardcover by G. P. Putnam s Sons . The role of de Camp, who was commissioned as a ghost writer to recast Ronne s manuscript into publishable form, is uncredited. Ronne s working title was reportedly Conquering the Antarctic . ref cite book last Laughlin first Charlotte coauthors Daniel J. H. Levack title De Camp An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography location San Francisco publisher Underwood Miller date 1983 page 26 ref The book relates the story of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition . Relationship to other works De Camp s work with Ronne is reflected in two of his contemporary Viagens Interplanetarias science fiction stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. One, the short story Calories story Calories , adopts an antarctic setting not utilized in any of the series s other stories in the other, the novel The Hand of Zei , the protagonist adopts the alias of an inhabitant of the planet s antarctic and is, like de Camp, employed as a ghostwriter for his explorer boss. Notes reflist External links http www.jstor.org stable 210999 Book review in the Geographical Review , v. 40, no. 1 Jan. 1950 , pp. 154 155 De Camp books Category 1949 books Category Science books Category Books by L. Sprague de Camp science book stub ... more details
See also Antarctic microorganisms Antarctica is one of eight terrestrial ecozone s. The ecosystem includes Antarctica and several island groups in the southern Atlantic Ocean Atlantic and Indian Ocean s. The continent of Antarctica is so cold and dry that it has supported virtually no vascular plants for millions of years, and its flora presently consists of around 250 lichen s, 100 moss es, 25 30 Marchantiophyta liverworts , and around 700 terrestrial and aquatic alga l species, which live on the areas of exposed rock and soil around the shore of the continent. Antarctica s two flowering plant species, the Antarctic hair grass Deschampsia antarctica and Antarctic pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis , are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula . Antarctica is also home to a diversity of animal life, including penguin s, pinniped seals , and whale s. Several Antarctic island groups are considered part of the Antarctica ecozone, including South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands , South Orkney Islands , the South Shetland Islands , Bouvet Island , the Crozet Islands , Prince Edward Islands , Heard Island , the Kerguelen Islands , and the McDonald Islands . These islands ... of tundra plants, although they are all too windy and cold to support trees. Antarctic krill is the keystone ..., and supported the Antarctic flora , including forests of Podocarpaceae podocarps and southern beech ... 30 35 million years ago allowed the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to form, which isolated Antarctica climatically and caused it to become much colder. The Antarctic flora subsequently died out in Antarctica ... an Antarctic Floristic Kingdom that includes Antarctica, New Zealand , and parts of Temperate South America where the Antarctic Flora is still a major component. Ecoregions Four tundra ecoregions are recognized ... 00 W source kolossus cawiki display title Category Antarctic ecozone Category Terrestrial ecozone Category Biogeography Category Phytogeography Category Antarctic region ca Zona ant rtica eo Antarkta ... more details
Taxobox name Antarctic toothfish, Antarctic cod image Dmawsoni Head shot.jpg image caption Dissostichus ... binomial authority Norman, 1937 The Antarctic cod , or Antarctic toothfish , of the fish family Nototheniidae ... six seconds, research involving Antarctic toothfish may lead to advances in cardiac medicine involving ... enough due to hypothermia . The Antarctic cod is quite unrelated to a cod . It does not even belong ... fish are among the biggest in the Antarctic adults of more than 2 metres in length and weighing over ... to species sometimes being called Antarctic cod. They are closely related to, and sometimes confused ... CCAMLR tagging programme in the Ross Sea indicate Antarctic toothfish are relatively fast growing ... of the biological parameters for Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni in the Ross Sea. WG FSA ... and orca on the surface. ref Fenaughty, J.M., D.W. Stevens and S.M. Hanchet. 2003. Diet of the Antarctic ..., 10 113 123. ref Stable isotope studies on Antarctic food webs by New Zealand scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research NIWA indicate Antarctic toothfish appear to occupy a similar trophic level in the Antarctic food web as orca and Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound, bluefin ... of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni . 27 pp. CCAMLR Science, submitted English . CCAMLR WG EMM 07 19 ref Antarctic toothfish have a lightweight, cartilage cartilaginous skeleton , lack a swim ... factor axe handle specimens of the Antarctic toothfish, Dissostichus mawsoni, from the Ross Sea. Antarctic Science, 20 537 551. ref They also have retina s well adapted to the low light levels ... to work in the reduced light levels found in the great depths of the Antarctic ocean. Coloring is black ... also been recorded from Antarctic coastal waters south of the Indian Ocean sector, in the vicinity of the Antarctic peninsula, and near the South Sandwich Islands. Antarctic toothfish is managed by the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR , which has limited fishing ... more details
Image Plates tect2 en.svg thumb right 300px legend 90A0C0 border 1px solid 000 2 The Antarctic plate, shown in blue The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Antarctica and extending outward under the surrounding ocean s. The Antarctic Plate has a boundary with the Nazca Plate , the South American Plate , the African Plate , the Indo Australian Plate , the Scotia Plate and a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Pacific Antarctic Ridge . The Antarctic plate is roughly 60,900,000 square kilometers. ref http www.ees1.lanl.gov Wohletz SFT Tectonics.htm SFT and the Earth s Tectonic Plates ref It is the fifth biggest plate in the world. The Antarctic plate movement is estimated at least 1 centimeter per year towards the Atlantic Ocean . Citation needed date September 2010 References Reflist Tectonic plates Category Tectonic plates Category Geology of Antarctica Category Geology of Chile Category Geology of the Pacific Ocean Category Geology of the Indian Ocean Category Geology of the Southern Ocean tectonics stub ca Placa ant rtica cs Antarktick deska de Antarktische Platte et Antarktika laam es Placa Ant rtica eu Antartikako plaka fr Plaque antarctique gl Placa ant rtica ko hi hr Antarkti ka plo a it Placca antartica he lt Antarktidos plok t nl Antarctische Plaat ja pl P yta antarktyczna pt Placa da Ant rtica ru sk Antarktick plat a sh Antarkti ka plo a fi Antarktiksen laatta uk vi M ng Nam C c zh ... more details
Image AntarcticaDomeCSnow.jpg thumb right The high, flat, and cold environment of the Antarctic Plateau at Dome C Image Plateau surface.jpg thumb right Surface of Antarctic Plateau, at 150E, 77S The Antarctic Plateau sometimes referred to as the Polar Plateau is a large area of Central Antarctica , which extends over a diameter of about convert 1000 km , and which includes the region of the South Pole and the Amundsen Scott Station . This plateau is at an average elevation of about Convert 3000 m ft . Exploration This plateau was first sighted in 1903 during the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic, which was led by Robert Falcon Scott . Ernest Shackleton became the first to cross parts of this plateau in 1909 during his Nimrod Expedition , which turned back in bad weather when it had reached a point just 97 nautical miles from the South Pole . Shackleton named this plateau the King Edward VII Plateau in honor of the King of the United Kingdom . Just two years later in late 1911 , the Norwegian people Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen decided to name this plateau the Haakon VII Plateau in honor of the newly elected King Haakon VII of Norway , while Amundsen s expedition was returning from the Amundsen s South Pole expedition first journey to the South Pole in December 1911. The Antarctic ... members of its crew were the co pilot and the photographer. Climate The high elevations of the Antarctic ... Hemisphere . Fauna The nearly continual frigid winds that blow across the Antarctic Plateau ... No penguin s live on the Antarctic Plateau because there is nothing there for them to eat. Few or no birds fly over the Antarctic Plateau, and if any arrive there, they have been blown in by huge storms ... for human being s and their laboratory animals. Any microscopic life that could be found on the Antarctic ... Amundsen Scott South Pole Station Dome A Dome C Concordia Station Dome F East Antarctic Ice Sheet Gamburtsev Mountain Range Plateau Station Pole of inaccessibility Antarctic research station Ridge A Roald ... more details
Infobox film name Antarctic Crossing image image size caption director George Lowe director George Lowe producer James Carr producer James Carr writer narrator starring music cinematography editing distributor released film date 1958 runtime 47 minutes country Film UK language English budget preceded by followed by Antarctic Crossing is a 1958 documentary film directed by George Lowe director George Lowe . It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Documentary Feature Best Documentary Feature . ref name NY Times cite web url http movies.nytimes.com movie 123724 Antarctic Crossing details title NY Times Antarctic Crossing accessdate 2008 11 08 work NY Times ref References reflist External links imdb title 0051366 Category 1958 films Category 1950s documentary films Category British films Category English language films Category British documentary films Category Documentary films about Antarctica documentary film stub ... more details
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