• Events from the year 2007 in Antarctica February 15: Chris Ellison, the Australian Minister for Justice, warns anti-whaling protesters and the Japanese...
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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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    Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation...
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    Colonization of Antarctica is the establishing and maintaining of control over Antarctic land for exploitation and possibly settlement. Antarctica was claimed...
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  • Earth concert in Antarctica was held at Rothera Research Station, one in a series of Live Earth concerts that took place on July 7, 2007, in all seven continents...
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    Antarctica is the southernmost continent on Earth. While Antarctica has never had a permanent human population, it has been explored by various groups...
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    Religion in Antarctica is largely dominated by Christianity, with churches being the only religious buildings on the continent. Although used regularly...
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    As Antarctica has never been permanently settled by humans, there has historically been little military activity in the Antarctic. The Antarctic Treaty...
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    Mount Takahe (category Calderas of Antarctica)
    a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea. It is a c. 30-kilometre-wide...
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    southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States...
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    MV Explorer (1969) (category 2007 in Antarctica)
    Lindblad. Its 1969 expeditionary cruise to Antarctica was the forerunner for today's sea-based tourism in that region. The vessel was originally named...
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    Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. It was the...
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    permanent research stations in Antarctica and these bases are widely distributed. Unlike the drifting ice stations set up in the Arctic, the current research...
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  • the Antarctica continent. The course passes by Cape Leeuwin, Cape Horn, and Cape Agulhas. Antarctica Cup Yacht Race media (16 Aug 2007). "Antarctica Cup...
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    East") is a Russian research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. Founded by the Soviet Union in 1957, the station lies at the southern...
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  • Nunatak (band) (category 2007 in Antarctica)
    chiefly known for their participation in Live Earth in 2007, where they were the only band to play in the event's Antarctica concert. The band's name is the...
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    2007 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian...
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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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  • Telecommunications in Antarctica is provided by the organizations that have established research stations on the continent. Antarctica is not formally designated...
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    The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the...
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    New Swabia (redirect from German Antarctica)
    Neuschwabenland) was an area of Antarctica explored and briefly claimed by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land in early 1939. The region...
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    Tourism started in Antarctica by the sea in the 1960s. Air overflights started in the 1970s with sightseeing flights by airliners from Australia and New...
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    Vinson Massif (/ˈvɪnsən mæˈsiːf/) is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is 21 km (13 mi) long and 13 km (8 mi) wide and lies within the Sentinel...
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    Glued timber parts were shipped to Antarctica by the icebreaker Akademik Fyodorov in November 2006. In November 2007, an Antarctic team of Greenside specialists...
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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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    have been women in Antarctica, exploring the regions around Antarctica for many centuries. The most celebrated "first" for women was in 1935 when Caroline...
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    station in Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula (in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula). It is one of only two civilian settlements in Antarctica (the other...
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    the South Shetland Islands, lying 120 km (75 miles) off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. The island was named after King George III. King...
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    Russian research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica. It is the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world (cf. St....
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  • Antarctica (南極物語, Nankyoku Monogatari, lit. "South Pole Story") is a 1983 Japanese drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura...
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