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5 days ago · Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km 2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).
- Territorial Claims in Antarctica
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile,...
- History of Antarctica
Painting of James Weddell's second expedition, depicting the...
- Antarctic Treaty System
A 2006 satellite composite image of Antarctica. The...
- Tourism in Antarctica
A party of skiers arrives after traversing overland to the...
- Mount Erebus Disaster
Flight and aircraft. The flight was designed and marketed as...
- Onyx
The Onyx River is an Antarctic meltwater stream which flows...
- Orthographic Projection
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this...
- Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok (Russian: озеро Восток, romanized: ozero Vostok)...
- Silver Cloud
Silver Cloud is a small luxury cruise ship operated by...
- Territorial Claims in Antarctica
2 days ago · 1975 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1886) 1977 – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901) 1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) 1980 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
6 days ago · The best Wikipedia experience on your Mobile device. Ad-free and free of charge, forever. With the official Wikipedia app, you can search and explore 40+ million articles in 300+...
2 days ago · France is a unitary semi-presidential republic. The head of state is the President, who is also a politician. The Prime Minister is secondary to the President. Metropolitan France is bordered (clockwise from the North) by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain.
3 days ago · 2008 ( MMVIII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
2 days ago · British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc, etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").
1 day ago · The UEFA European Under-17 Championship or simply UEFA Under-17 Championship is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-17 national teams of the member associations of UEFA . Spain is the most successful team in this competition, having won nine titles. Germany are the current champions.
