Antarctica
proper nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˌænˈtɑːktɪkə//
- United States//æntˈɑɹ(k)tɪkə//
- Australia//ænˈtɐːktɪkə//
- //əɳˈʈɑ(ɾ)(k)tɪka//
The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
proper noun
- 1
The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
Dr. Murray believes that Alexander I. Land is a part of the west coast of Graham's Land, and that this landmass, which Biscoe and Larsen proved to widen rapidly toward the south, is only a peninsula of the continent of Antarctica.
To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet.
- 2
the Antarctic
Etymology
From New Latin Antarctica, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντι- (anti-, “anti-, against, opposed”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).
Antarctica · The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
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