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Sentence Examples The Arctic is an ocean basin with peripheral continents, whereas the Antarctic is continental. That's one of the thoughts of how should poultry disease ever get to the Antarctic. During the Antarctic winter the South Pole becomes the coldest place on the planet. Three volumes of a newspaper created on expeditions to the Antarctic led by Captain Scott are to be republished. The Tom Crean Society has arrived at Buenos Aires en route to the Antarctic. The most extreme type of katabatic wind is found in the Antarctic where cold gusts of wind surge across the polar ice caps. The teams of service personnel, all of whom have physical or cognitive injuries, have walked 335km across the antarctic Plateau. A Royal Navy Lynx helicopter operating from HMS Endurance has crashed in the Antarctic, injuring the flight crew of five. The Northern Lights are a phenomenon that is seen in the skies on clear, dark nights in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The Antarctic region harbors the most extreme climate and the most narrow biodiversity of all continents. An Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem is not a particularly spectacular affair. This reduced the mixing of warm, tropical ocean water and cold, polar water causing the buildup of the Antarctic polar ice cap. As they rode at anchor in Hobson's Bay they were amazed and delighted by the contrast to the silence and loneliness of their Antarctic sojourn. The results, though, did not assess the overall contribution of the entire Antarctic ice sheet to sea level rise. He had wondered how Antarctic fish stay alive in waters cold enough to freeze them. It is formed from snow falling in the interior of the Antarctic which compacts into ice. She tipped her glass at Hector as she gibed at the Antarctic and he couldn't have enjoyed it more. Such ideas naturally discouraged further exploration to the Antarctic region for many centuries to come. More than 30 hours away from the UK already and we still had two days sailing before arriving at the true Antarctic. The Australian government built its Antarctic space with letters patent and legal documents. Show More Sentences The teams of service personnel, all of whom have physical or cognitive injuries, will race 335km across the antarctic Plateau. So much water is currently locked up in the Antarctic ice sheet that if it melted it would raise sea levels by a further 150 ft or more. During a scientific expedition in the antarctic he lost his colleagues 300 miles from safety. The hardships they suffered instead for more than two years in the Antarctic have become the stuff of legend. This is assuming that the Antarctic and Arctic ice caps will remain constant. We interpret them to be partial melts of asthenospheric mantle underlying the Antarctic Peninsula magmatic arc. It plummets to the icy surface of the Antarctic, burrowing deep within the ground. The two-part Channel 4 drama was filmed in Greenland instead of in the Antarctic which was in perpetual darkness at the time. The work responded to the presence of classics in the Antarctic, in the place names given by British public school-educated explorers. They nest in colonies in scree slopes along ice-free Antarctic and sub-Antarctic coasts, where they lay a single egg in a natural cavity. It recreates the vegetation and animal life in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. I ended the book with a photograph of an emperor penguin chick from the Antarctic. Antarctic veteran Bill Storer presents the roundel of Auster A11-201 to the director of the RAAF Museum, David Gardner. But in Antarctic waters, E supurba so abounds that the baleen whales feed on it almost exclusively. Their journey begins in early December at Hercules Inlet on the frozen Antarctic coast. The lichen samples were collected along a transect from the northern maritime Antarctic to the continent. This catch is in addition to the 400 minke whales caught by the Japanese fleet every year in the Antarctic. Arctic and Antarctic exploration remains a staple of the book publishing industry. To coincide with the International Polar Year, this year's theme is the Arctic and Antarctic, home of polar bears and penguins. Amanda could, for example, be installed at any Antarctic site where the glacial ice is thick and free of dust. Show More Sentences I've just returned from spending a month at Palmer Station, a US research base on the Antarctic peninsular. Shackleton's last journey would be with the goal of circumnavigating the Antarctic continent. Ice scour is a major structuring force in nearshore marine benthic Antarctic communities. You can almost feel the bitter cold and biting Antarctic wind in this excellent biography of a polar hero. Lichens thus dominate the Antarctic flora both in terms of species diversity and in terms of total biomass. Ominously, the calving of monstrous Antarctic icebergs is becoming a regular occurrence. Melbourne lies against an inlet bay facing the Bass Strait, and beyond the Strait lurks the icy Antarctic Ocean. He will be presented with the Marsden Medal tonight for his 40-year contribution to Antarctic research, latterly focusing on climate change. There are places on Earth today that may bear a close resemblance to the Antarctic landform back then. Cold rush threatens pristine Antarctic, says the Guardian's science correspondent Ian Sample. In Antarctic fur seals, lactating females do not return to feed their pup until they have replenished their own reserves. The role of liverworts in Antarctic plant communities is discussed in detail. He created a strong sense of the alienness of the Antarctic environment and the disorientation it produces. Changes in margin orientation at the current location of the southern Antarctic Peninsula form an embayment or re-entrant. The Antarctic flora is a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago. A hole has been torn in the thin veil of ozone just above the Antarctic. This is true for minke whale, Antarctic fur seal, Adelie, chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins, black-browed albatross, and white-chinned and cape petrels. However, there is some evidence of antarctic marine glaciation during the Cretaceous period. He was so moved by the beauty and vulnerability of the Antarctic and the Arctic regions that he made a commitment to help preserve these great wilderness area. Taronga is noted for its stand-out collection of Australian fauna and for its work on breeding Sumatran tigers and research on Antarctic leopard seals. Show More Sentences Followed by Japan and U.S.A, China holds most Antarctic aerolites. There is relatively little information on trophic relationships among nearshore Antarctic peninsula organisms that inhabit the most productive areas in the Antarctic. Accordingly, Java Major, or Jave la Grande, was shown as a promontory of the undiscovered antarctic continent of Terra Australis. Their names allude to the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott, where Oates nobly sacrificed his life in a vain attempt to save Scott and his team. There was still some cheese, dry biscuits, and dried apples in my pack from lunch a few days ago, as food rarely spoils in the cold Antarctic climate. The Emperor penguins are large and found only in the Antarctic regions. These toothpick-sized, shrimplike crustaceans thrive in vast quantities in Antarctic waters. I was particularly pleased to have seen some species of wildlife that do not venture as far north as the Falklands, such as the Antarctic fur seal and wandering albatross. They suggest there is a real risk of a sudden rupture, e.g. a structural change in ocean currents or the melting of the Western Antarctic ice sheet. Ice shelves are carving off the Antarctic faster than expected. Measurements from below the ice are only possible at the North Pole as the Arctic ice cap sits on the sea, unlike the Antarctic, which is a land mass. West of the Antarctic Peninsula, zooplankton are dominated by krill after winters with high ice extent, and alternately, by salps after low ice extent years. The convention's scientific committee says since 1996 pirate longliners have killed up to 144,000 albatrosses and 400,000 petrels in Antarctic waters alone. In 1983 the Antarctic Treaty Parties began negotiations on a convention to regulate mining in Antarctica. They proposed instead that a comprehensive regime to protect the Antarctic environment be negotiated in its place. The 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty also restricts a struggle for resources. Sea ice extent expands annually in the Antarctic winter and most of this ice melts in the summer. Scientists also found evidence of global cooling through the separation of Australia and Antarctica and the formation of the Antarctic Ocean. Ocean currents in the newly formed Antarctic or Southern Ocean created a circumpolar current. Carbon dioxide decrease, with a tipping point of 600 ppm, was the primary agent forcing Antarctic glaciation. Show More Sentences The joining of the two great oceans started the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and cooled the continent significantly. The expedition carried out aerial photography of the island and was the first Antarctic expedition to use aircraft. Since the 1970s, the island has been frequently visited by Norwegian Antarctic expeditions. The island is located south of the Antarctic Convergence, giving it a marine Antarctic climate dominated by heavy clouds and fog. The southerly side is a complex boundary with the Antarctic Plate and the Scotia Plate. One example of this would be protozoan foraminiferans, certain species of which are distributed from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Antarctic bottom water also has a high oxygen content relative to the rest of the oceans' deep waters. Antarctic bottom water has thus been considered the ventilation of the deep ocean. Antarctic bottom water is created in part due to the major overturning of ocean water. A unique feature of Antarctic bottom water is the cold surface wind blowing off the Antarctic continent. Due to its increased density, it flows down the Antarctic continental margin and continues north along the bottom. The Weddell Sea Bottom Water is the densest component of the Antarctic bottom water. A large fraction of the Antarctic bottom water enters the eastern Atlantic through the Vema Fracture Zone. When the ocean contains a sea surface height gradient this creates a jet or current, such as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, at approximately 125 Sverdrups, is the largest ocean current. Because water just offshore of Antarctica is being pushed away and into Antarctica, it leads to the Antarctic Divergence region. Once the NADW is upwelled to the surface some of it diverges towards Antarctica, gets colder, and sinks back down as Antarctic Bottom Water. The NIC is the only organization that names and tracks all Antarctic Icebergs. In the 1980s, drifting buoys were used in Antarctic waters for oceanographic and climate research. This found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet was in balance but the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was losing mass. Show More Sentences Antarctic sea ice anomalies have roughly followed the pattern of warming, with the greatest declines occurring off the coast of West Antarctica. Spreading in the West Scotia Sea finally led to the rifting of the South Orkney microcontinent from the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic toothfish have large, upward looking eyes, adapted to detecting the silhouettes of prey fish. This exclusive economic zone does not include the Australian Antarctic Territory. Marinus also coined the term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle. The Andean volcanism is a result of subduction of the Nazca Plate and Antarctic Plate underneath the South American Plate. The course must include set control points at latitudes outside the Arctic and Antarctic circles. Some of the small passenger vessels shuttling between Ushuaia and the Antarctic Peninsula will pass the Horn too, time and weather permitting. However, Scott discovered that a diet of fresh meat from Antarctic seals cured scurvy before any fatalities occurred. Sundews are extremely cosmopolitan and are found on all the continents except the Antarctic mainland. He also made a voyage through the Antarctic in the company of the ornithologist Ronald Lockley. A major sticking point had arisen over draft article IV of the proposed treaty dealing with the disputed Antarctic claims and rights. Nutrient-rich currents from the cold southern seas of the Antarctic swirl around volcanic seamounts that rise from vast deep abyssal plains. Adelie penguin numbers are decreasing in the Antarctic Peninsula region, where climate warming is established and sea ice is in decline. Adelie penguins are one of the smallest and most widely found penguins in the Antarctic. They recorded 626 hours of songs, with 26,545 calls of Antarctic blue whale analysed in real time, said lead acoustician Brian Miller. Continued research will be done on samples recently gathered from the Weddell Sea and Antarctic Peninsula and added to this data. The old whalebones came from a 113-ton Fin Whale, killed in the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic by the Norwegian whaling ship Thorshovdi. She was also an intrepid traveller and went to Antarctica aged 80 and swam in the Antarctic Ocean. Patrick O'Donoghue has landed a job as a helicopter pilot crusading against Japan's cruel slaughter in the Antarctic Ocean. Show More Sentences In the Antarctic Peninsula, definitely climate change in that region has had an impact on the ice shelf and the carving of glaciers there. A satellite picture shows newly-created flat-topped icebergs floating in the sea on the western side of the Antarctic peninsula. The 400-year-old shelf, called Larsen B, on the Antarctic Peninsula was 40 miles wide, 53 miles long and 650ft thick. I have stood in the empty rookeries of displaced Adelie penguins, and felt a chill from the receding ice of the Antarctic Peninsula. Within seconds, a completely calm afternoon could be swallowed by katabatic winds howling off the East Antarctic ice sheet. Many of these species are migratory, and travel to tropical waters during the Antarctic winter. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer, was one of the principal figures of Antarctic exploration. Accumulation of snowfall on the Antarctic ice sheet is projected to outpace losses from melting. Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. In 1985, Norwich's Joe Farman discovered the hole in the Ozone layer, when part of Cambridge's British Antarctic Survey. The south polar latitudes below the Antarctic Circle are in daylight, whilst the north polar latitudes above the Arctic Circle are in night. Many bird species, including seven species of penguin breed in the British Antarctic Territories. While Emilio Palma was born in the Antarctic territories claimed by the UK, he has not claimed British citizenship. Since 1996, the historic base at Port Lockroy on Goudier Island has been staffed by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust during the Antarctic summer. Despite the lack of permanent inhabitants, the British Antarctic Territory issues its own postage stamps. The seas surrounding South Georgia are cold throughout the year due to the proximity of the Antarctic Current. Cruise ships often combine a Grytviken visit with a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula. For more information on British currency in the wider region, see Pound sterling in the South Atlantic and the Antarctic. Almirante Irizar was an icebreaker, Bahia Paraiso was an Antarctic supply transport and Puerto Deseado was a survey ship. However, Australia's EEZ from its Antarctic Territory is approximately 2 million square kilometres. Show More Sentences All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island. Since the earth has significant continental glaciation in the Arctic and Antarctic, we are currently in a glacial minimum of a glaciation. Most Antarctic Bottom Water forms near the Antarctic coast south of South America during winter. Antarctic Bottom Water also flows into the Atlantic Ocean basin, where it flows north at a faster rate than in the Pacific. However, some portions of the continent, particularly the Antarctic Peninsula, have areas of rocky soil that support plant life. They live in all oceans except for the Arctic and Antarctic Circle regions. Antarctic krill, probably the largest biomass of a single species on the planet. A similar situation may also have been found amongst dinosaurs that lived in Antarctic regions, such as the Muttaburrasaurus of Australia. Most recently a group of stars at the Rio Earth Summit, on 21 June 2012, proposed protecting the Arctic, similar to the Antarctic protection. On at least one occasion, an Antarctic minke whale has been confirmed migrating to the Arctic. In addition, at least two wild hybrids between a common minke whale and an Antarctic minke whale have been confirmed. Cruise ships en route to and from the Antarctic Peninsula sometimes encounter fin whales in the Drake Passage. This, along with hunting in the Antarctic Ocean beginning in 1904, sharply reduced whale populations. Of three orca ecotypes in the Antarctic, one preys on minke whales, the second on seals and penguins and the third on fish. It extends from the Antarctic region in the South to the Arctic in the north. In the Antarctic, which lacks terrestrial predators, pinniped species spend more time on the ice than their Arctic counterparts. Antarctic seals are more vocal on land or ice than Arctic seals due to a lack of terrestrial and pagophliic predators like the polar bear. The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals allows limited hunting of crabeater seals, leopard seals and Weddell seals. Other species protected are southern elephant seals, Ross seals and Antarctic fur seals. The trend was partly caused by the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which significantly lowered oceanic water temperatures. Show More Sentences Nonetheless, there is evidence of Antarctic marine glaciation in the Turonian Age. The evolutionary pressure of polar bear predation on seals probably accounts for some significant differences between Arctic and Antarctic seals. The fur of Arctic pups is white, presumably to provide camouflage from predators, whereas Antarctic pups all have dark fur. The islands are, unlike the Norwegian Antarctic Territory, a part of the Kingdom of Norway and not a dependency. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current encircles that continent, influencing the area's climate and connecting currents in several oceans. In the Arctic, some sea ice remains year after year, whereas almost all Southern Ocean or Antarctic sea ice melts away and reforms annually. It also allowed the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to flow, rapidly cooling the Antarctic continent. This would have facilitated an earlier onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The northernmost and southernmost breeders are the Arctic tern and Antarctic tern respectively. The Queen inspected the international fleet from the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance. Callis says that the ozone hole now developing over the Antarctic is as deep as last year's hole, but seems to cover a smaller area. In particular, it explains the Gondwanan distribution of ratites and the Antarctic flora. Apart from the high Arctic, the Antarctic and a few isolated oceanic islands, bats exist all over the world. The majority of Earth's polar regions are covered in ice, including the Antarctic ice sheet and the sea ice of the Arctic ice pack. This is one reason why the Arctic does not experience the extreme temperatures seen on the Antarctic continent. Deep water circulation is controlled primarily by inflows from the Atlantic Ocean, the Red Sea, and Antarctic currents. The limits of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans have therefore been extended South to the Antarctic Continent. The proposal for the name Southern Ocean won 18 votes, beating the alternative Antarctic Ocean. He thereby laid open the way for future Antarctic exploration by exploding the myth of a habitable southern continent. It is unknown if some survivor managed to be the first to set foot on these Antarctic islands. Show More Sentences Among other provisions, this treaty limits military activity in the Antarctic to the support of scientific research. The separation of the continents allowed the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Water gets transported around the Southern Ocean fairly rapidly because of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which circulates around Antarctica. One of these is the Antarctic Bottom Water, a very cold, highly saline, dense water that forms under sea ice. The Antarctic Convergence is considered to be the best natural definition of the northern extent of the Southern Ocean. The gyres are formed by interactions between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the Antarctic Continental Shelf. Antarctic sea life includes penguins, blue whales, orcas, colossal squids and fur seals. King penguins, chinstrap penguins, and gentoo penguins also breed in the Antarctic. Due to the low water temperatures around the mainland, the Antarctic toothfish has antifreeze proteins in its blood and tissues. Another abundant fish group is the Notothenia genus, which like the Antarctic toothfish have antifreeze in their bodies. Two species of salps are common in Antarctic waters, Salpa thompsoni and Ihlea racovitzai. The Antarctic Treaty covers the portion of the globe south of sixty degrees south, it prohibits new claims to Antarctica. Antarctica is a de facto condominium, governed by parties to the Antarctic Treaty System that have consulting status. In 2004, a potentially active underwater volcano was found in the Antarctic Peninsula by American and Canadian researchers. The Antarctic Peninsula was formed by uplift and metamorphism of sea bed sediments during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic eras. Exploitation of all mineral resources is banned until 2048 by the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. The overfishing of krill, which plays a large role in the Antarctic ecosystem, led officials to enact regulations on fishing. Antarctica's status is regulated by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty and other related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System. Scientists from JCVI ventured to the US Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station at the south tip of Ross Island. In 2008, researchers drilled an ice core from James Ross Island, off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Show More Sentences A satellite DNA containing CENP-B box-like motifs is present in the Antarctic scallop Adamussium colbecki. Riddle, a marine biologist at the Australian Government Antarctic Division in Kingston, Tasmania. A REMARKABLE set of rare medals awarded to explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton for his Antarctic expeditions are up for auction. Later, he served on HMS Endurance on the Antarctic peninsular, visiting the Falklands in 1973 when he was ship's corporal. Most have been found on a chain of undersea volcanoes called the mid-ocean ridge, however, and very few are known in the Antarctic. In turn, the weaker winds have less capacity to erode the strong temperature inversion at the Antarctic surface. The remote and hostile Antarctic region is home to 8,800 recorded species, with moss animals, sponges and small crustaceans richly represented. The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust eventually raised some PS7m to protect Scott's hut on Cape Evans on Ross Island and Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds. The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. Today, petroleum extraction dominates economic activity in the north of Tierra del Fuego, while tourism, manufacturing, and Antarctic logistics are important in the south. The main cause of the rise of the Andes is the compression of the western rim of the South American Plate due to the subduction of the Nazca Plate and the Antarctic Plate. Arctic and Antarctic seas were not explored until the 19th century. Subpolar circulation in the southern hemisphere is dominated by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, due to the lack of large landmasses breaking up the Southern Ocean. The most successful animal species, in terms of biomass, is probably the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, with a biomass of about 500 million tonnes. The Bransfield Strait, finally, separates the arc from the South Shetland Islands and James Ross Island flanking the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the Earth. This effect also occurs in Arctic and Antarctic waters, bringing water to the surface which, although low in oxygen, is higher in nutrients than the original surface water. This Antarctic wind is stronger during the winter months and thus the Antarctic bottom water formation is more pronounced during the Antarctic winter season. The major significance of Antarctic bottom water is that it is the coldest bottom water, giving it a significant influence on the movement of the world's oceans. The flora are representative for the maritime Antarctic and are phytogeographically similar to the South Sandwich Islands and South Shetland Islands. Show More Sentences All these islands lie in the cold seas below the Antarctic convergence. February 1874 was spent travelling south and then generally eastwards in the vicinity of the Antarctic Circle, with sightings of icebergs, pack ice and whales. The net contribution to sea level from the Antarctic Peninsula is more likely to be a direct result of the much greater atmospheric warming there. Recent decades have witnessed several dramatic collapses of large ice shelves around the coast of Antarctica, especially along the Antarctic Peninsula. It is important to understand the various types of Antarctic ice to understand possible effects on sea levels and the implications of global cooling. The elapsed time since fall, or terrestrial residence age, of a meteorite represents more information that might be useful in environmental studies of Antarctic ice sheets. The Antarctic Treaty prohibits any military activity in Antarctica, including the establishment of military bases and fortifications, military manoeuvres, and weapons testing. The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting is advised on environmental and conservation issues in Antarctica by the Committee for Environmental Protection. Around 23 Ma, the Drake Passage opened between Antarctica and South America, resulting in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that completely isolated the continent. East Antarctica is largely covered by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Antarctic sponges are long lived, and sensitive to environmental changes due to the specificity of the symbiotic microbial communities within them. During the 1940s Chile and Argentina formulated their Antarctic claims. They are the only Antarctic animal to breed during the winter. The Antarctic fur seal was very heavily hunted in the 18th and 19th centuries for its pelt by sealers from the United States and the United Kingdom. Since there are no continents in a band of open latitudes between South America and the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, some of this water is drawn up from great depths. The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition discovered and mapped the last unknown coastline in the world and was the first Antarctic expedition to ever include women. In 1946, US Navy Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and more than 4,700 military personnel visited the Antarctic in an expedition called Operation Highjump. The same holds for the African, Eurasian, and Antarctic plates. Specialist feather lice of the genus Piagetella are found in the pouches of all species of pelican, but are otherwise only known from New World and Antarctic cormorants. The Greenland, and possibly the Antarctic, ice sheets have been losing mass recently, because losses by ablation including outlet glaciers exceed accumulation of snowfall. Show More Sentences As the gateway widened, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current strengthened. The onset of Antarctic glaciation occurred during the early Oligocene, and the effect of the Drake Passage opening on this glaciation has been the subject of much research. Analysis of ice in a core drilled from an ice sheet such as the Antarctic ice sheet, can be used to show a link between temperature and global sea level variations. The first is increases in ultraviolet radiation due to ozone depletion, and this mainly affects the Antarctic and other areas of the southern hemisphere. Japan also harvests several hundred Antarctic and North Pacific minke whales each year, ostensibly for scientific research in accordance with the moratorium. Only the Antarctic and Australian coasts have no nearby subduction zones. Antarctic killer whales may have pale gray to nearly white backs. This species has been observed near sea ice in the Antarctic. Krill and copepods are prey species in Australian and Antarctic waters. It is weaker, however, than the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The 2006 catch by Japanese whalers included 505 Antarctic minke whales. Sea spiders, a family of eight-legged creatures, which rarely grow bigger than a fingernail in UK waters, have been discovered up to nine inches across in Antarctic seas. Along its path across Earth the composition of the NADW is affected by other water masses, especially Antarctic Bottom Water and Mediterranean Overflow Water. In 2012, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission agreed upon a population estimate of 515,000 for the Antarctic minke stock. In 2016, a glacier in the Antarctic was named the Glasser glacier, after Aberystwyth Geographer Professor Neil Glasser in recognition of his contribution to Polar Science. In contrast with the Arctic tundra, the Antarctic tundra lacks a large mammal fauna, mostly due to its physical isolation from the other continents. The water's great density causes it to sink toward the continental shelf, where it mixes with nearly equal parts of water from the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The British Antarctic Territory is subject to overlapping claims by Argentina and Chile, while many countries do not recognise any territorial claims in Antarctica. The figure does not include the EEZ of the British Antarctic Territory. The South Sandwich Islands are much colder than South Georgia, being farther south and more exposed to cold outbreaks from the Antarctic continent. Show More Sentences The Greenland, and probably the Antarctic, ice sheets have been losing mass recently, because losses by melting and outlet glaciers exceed accumulation of snowfall. The Falkland Islands are a biogeographical part of the mild Antarctic zone, with strong connections to the flora and fauna of Patagonia in mainland South America. Given the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty System, the Territory does not enforce its laws on foreign nations who maintain scientific bases within the Territory. Scientists first found clues to a far warmer continent in 1982, when paleontologists unearthed the world's oldest marsupial fossil in the Antarctic Peninsula. Early high-priority DC-8 flights include several flight lines over sea ice near the Antarctic Peninsula, before too much of the ice melts in the southern spring. Alongside her, on board the Antarctic survey ship HMS Endurance, stood the Duke of Edinburgh, in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, encrusted with faded gold braid. Scott's 1902 Antarctic expedition used lightly fried seal meat and liver, whereby complete recovery from incipient scurvy was reported to have taken less than two weeks. The baby fur of most Arctic seal species is white, presumably to provide camouflage from predators, whereas Antarctic seals all have dark fur at birth. These winds are exacerbated at the Horn by the funneling effect of the Andes and the Antarctic peninsula, which channel the winds into the relatively narrow Drake Passage. They are part of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctic Territory and South Atlantic Islands Province, whose capital is Ushuaia, the biggest city of the archipelago. The governments realized the key role of Tierra del Fuego's geographical proximity in backing their claims as well as in supplying their Antarctic bases. The British Antarctic Territories are also home to six species of seals. Examples from Classical Literature Thus several species of the prevalently arctic and antarctic family Enchytraeidae are shore living. We knew that war was their object, and the antarctic was prepared for battle. Now you shall know that opposite the polar star is the other star, called antarctic, as I have said before. We're to sail the first week in September, so as to get the summer months in the antarctic. This awful creature came slowly up from the Antarctic Ocean, toward the ships full of people. Some geologists said this accounted for the greater depth of the Antarctic Ocean. They turned to the south, and plunged at haphazard into the Antarctic floes. On the seventy-fifth day after the sailing of the antarctic? Whilst that in the other hemisphere he calls south, austral or antarctic. The non-existence of an antarctic continent was definitely ascertained. In order to save her supply of coal for future use she was towed to the Antarctic Circle. His explorations in the Antarctic Ocean showed a hardihood and determination seldom surpassed. The mate's body was buried in the cold Antarctic Ocean, and the barque sailed for England. They strung out and started for the Antarctic Ocean, with a big old wicker-worked demijohn in the lead. There, by lantern or candle-stump, wit Rabelaisian, aristophanic or Antarctic was cradled into rhyme. As regards the Arctic and Antarctic regions, the continuity or circumpolar distribution of the shore fishes is well established. I know no more about the geography of the Antarctic Circle than I do of the moon. The first of the charts opened, the deacon saw at a glance, was that of the Antarctic Circle. Daggett followed willingly, but not like a man who had escaped by the skin of his teeth, from wintering near the Antarctic Circle. It was September, the March of the Antarctic Circle, and the weather had been terrific during most of the period. Show More Sentences We continued cruising near the Antarctic Circle during the few short months of summer with unvaried success. They had been south of the Antarctic Circle for sixty-three days, when they recrossed it on 4th March. Great fields of ice and huge icebergs cover the sea in all directions and in winter extend far beyond the Antarctic Circle. What might lie below was in the Antarctic Circle of community life. Huge necks of angular stone jut upward from penguin nesting grounds, perfect vantage points for Antarctic tern and skua birds. The killer whale, a toothed whale, is the top predator in the Antarctic food web. On the 15th the Antarctic Circle was crossed on a south-westerly course. A chill south wind bites at my marrow, while far below me I can see the tropic foliage of Caspak on the one hand and huge icebergs from the near Antarctic upon the other. Find more words! 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