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The Northern Party (white boxes) - North is around the edges of the map above, south and the pole are in the middle of the map. Led by Victor Campbell the Northern Party wintered as planned in a hut at Cape Adare in 1911, the Terra Nova met them in January 1912 and moved them to another location where they were to spend 6 weeks before being ...
4 days ago · Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size. It is divided into East Antarctica (largely composed of a high ice-covered plateau) and West Antarctica (an archipelago of ice-covered mountainous islands).
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Antarctica, Fifth largest continent on Earth. Antarctica lies concentrically around the South Pole, its landmass almost wholly covered by a vast ice sheet averaging 6,500 ft (2,000 m) thick. It is divided into two subcontinents: East Antarctica, consisting mainly of a high, ice-covered plateau, and West Antarctica, consisting largely of an archipel...
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This map shows the outward and return journeys to the South Pole made by Robert Falcon Scott and his team in 1911-1912. It was included in the 1923 edition of 'Scott's Last Expedition'. Scott's last expedition map, 1923. View large expedition map on Flickr.
Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. 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).
November 21st 1915. 6 Launch boats for Elephant Island. 20 months, 1 day. April 9th 1916 - arrive Elephant Island April 15th. 7 Boat journey to South Georgia. 2 week journey - 21 months 2 days on arrival at S.G. April 24th - May 10th 1916. 8 Shackleton, Worsley, and Crean reach Stromness whaling station.
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth 's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle. It is washed by the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean or, depending on definition, the southern ...
