I know more of them than most people because of my trips to Antarctica and my time out in the field.
Kim Stanley Robinson Holds Out Hope - Issue 90: Something Green|Liz Greene|October 7, 2020|Nautilus
During a phone call from our respective home offices, McClintock shared his experiences of watching Antarctica transform—and turn green.
The Greening of Antarctica - Issue 90: Something Green|Marissa Grunes|October 7, 2020|Nautilus
They exist on four of the five continents–except Antarctica–and can live in ecosystems varying from the deepest and murkiest waters to the highest of treetops.
What hundreds of pickled frog carcasses can tell us about their enormous eyes|María Paula Rubiano A.|October 1, 2020|Popular Science
The new analysis applies lessons learned in discriminating between wet and dry subglacial conditions in radar data for Antarctica and Greenland.
There might be even more underground reservoirs of liquid water on Mars|Neel Patel|September 28, 2020|MIT Technology Review
These same analysis techniques have been used closer to home to map subglacial lakes in Antarctica and Greenland.
A ‘lake’ on Mars may be surrounded by more pools of water|Christopher Crockett|September 28, 2020|Science News
Michael Clinton, president of marketing at Hearst, just ran a marathon in Antarctica.
Joanna Coles: Why Cosmopolitan Does Sexy and Serious So Well|Lloyd Grove|August 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Another, Autosub-2, was trapped as it explored life beneath permanent ice shelves around Antarctica in 2005.
Lost Ocean Rover Leaves Gap in Biology and Alzheimer's Research|Beenish Ahmed|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They went AWOL all around the world—from the waters around Antarctica to just off a Japanese Island—for a host of reasons.
Lost Ocean Rover Leaves Gap in Biology and Alzheimer's Research|Beenish Ahmed|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Let's hope he didn't get frostbite - here's the science of getting naked in antarctica.
Nude At The South Pole, It's Alexander Skarsgard, NOT Prince Harry (This Time!)|Tom Sykes|January 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On December 6, Liautaud and his teammate Doug Stoup, set off from Antarctica on a 640-kilometer ski journey to the South Pole.
The Most Extreme Explorers of 2013|Nina Strochlic|December 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The English and the Norwegian expeditions found no rain even at the edge of Antarctica.
Meteorology|Charles Fitzhugh Talman
Antarctica wanted temperature lowered from a nighttime norm of 62° Fahrenheit to 57.6°.
It's All Yours|Sam Merwin
The billows thus had a stretch of unbroken ocean from the frozen continent of Antarctica.
The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers|Francis Rolt-Wheeler
They haunt the coasts of Antarctica and are seldom found at any distance from them.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
So right now his whole crew is very busy trying to melt down Antarctica.
Martyr|Alan Edward Nourse
British Dictionary definitions for Antarctica
Antarctica
/ (æntˈɑːktɪkə) /
noun
a continent around the South Pole: consists of an ice-covered plateau, 1800–3000 m (6000 ft to 10 000 ft) above sea level, and mountain ranges rising to 4500 m (15 000 ft) with some volcanic peaks; average temperatures all below freezing and human settlement is confined to research stations. All political claims to the mainland are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
Continent surrounding the South Pole, located almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle. It is covered by an ice cap up to thirteen thousand feet thick.
notes for Antarctica
Antarctica is characterized by extremely low temperatures.
notes for Antarctica
In 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first explorer to reach the South Pole, followed shortly thereafter by Robert Scott.