• (14 mi) long and 8 km (5 mi) wide, in northwestern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The range is bounded on the west by Rawle Glacier and Leitch Massif, on the...
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  • King Range may refer to: King Range (Antarctica), a mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica King Range (California), a mountain range in Humboldt...
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    Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway (category Airports in Antarctica)
    SCGC) is the blue ice runway for Union Glacier Camp in Antarctica. It is located in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, on the glacier that gives it...
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    Antarctica (/ænˈtɑːrktɪkə/ ) is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded...
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  • Concord Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Victoria Land)
    of ranges in northwest Victoria Land, Antarctica. They comprise the Everett Range, Mirabito Range, King Range, Leitch Massif, East Quartzite Range and...
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  • holds one of the most important fossil sites in Antarctica, the Hanson Formation. Because Antarctica used to be warmer and supported dense conifer and...
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  • Land  This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount King (Antarctica)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey...
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    -75.000; -49.500 Argentine Antarctica (Spanish: Antártida Argentina or Sector Antártico Argentino) is an area on Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part...
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    volcanoes in Antarctica "Penguin Island". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 28 February 2009. "Penguin Island, King George Island"...
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    scientific name Aptenodytes antarctica by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1781, thereby placing it in the same genus as the king and emperor penguins. In 1990...
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    rather than blackish back. King penguins breed on subantarctic islands between 45 and 55°S, at the northern reaches of Antarctica, as well as Tierra del Fuego...
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    The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth. The continent is also extremely dry (it is a desert), averaging 166 mm (6.5 in) of precipitation per...
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    on Antarctica proper and those that were built south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the 6th article of the Antarctic Treaty, Antarctica is...
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    Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station (category Outposts of Antarctica)
    Henryka Arctowskiego) is a Polish research station on King George Island, off the coast of Antarctica. The station is named for Henryk Arctowski (1871–1958)...
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    Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of 1,610,000 km2 (620,000 sq mi), it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth...
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    Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province). Several countries maintain research stations on the islands. Most of them are situated on King George Island...
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    everywhere on Earth, and while Antarctica is less vulnerable to it than any other continent, climate change in Antarctica has been observed. Since 1959...
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    The wildlife of Antarctica are extremophiles, having adapted to the dryness, low temperatures, and high exposure common in Antarctica. The extreme weather...
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    Queen Maud Land (category Lands of Antarctica)
    roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British...
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  • Edward VII Peninsula, just southwest of Sulzberger Bay in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The Alexandra Mountains were discovered in January–February 1902 by the...
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    Antarctic Territory, or Chilean Antarctica (Spanish: Territorio Chileno Antártico, Antártica Chilena), is a part of West Antarctica and nearby islands claimed...
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    The geology of Antarctica covers the geological development of the continent through the Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons. The geological study...
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  • Antarctica. It lies to the south of the Victory Mountains and northeast of the Southern Cross Mountains. The seaward parts of the Mountaineer Range were...
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    Department of the Interior. Retrieved 13 March 2007. "World Ribus – West Antarctica Ranges". World Ribus. Retrieved 26 December 2024. Taylor, Andrew. Two Years...
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  • Visnes King Von, stage name of African American rapper Dayvon Daquan Bennett (1994–2020) King Peak (Antarctica), Ellsworth Land King Valley (Antarctica), Victoria...
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  • The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being 200 km (125 mi) long and having a width of 40 km (25 mi)...
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    at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the VUWAE (1958-59) for Sir Charles Wright, for whom...
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    Antarctic Plateau (category Plateaus of Antarctica)
    The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about 1,000 kilometres...
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    de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena) or Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctica Region in English, is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions...
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  • miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) south of Mount Anne in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. Mount Elizabeth was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition...
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