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61Antarctic Zone — noun the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters • Syn: ↑Antarctic, ↑South Frigid Zone • Derivationally related forms: ↑Antarctic (for: ↑Antarctic) • Instance Hypernyms: ↑ …
62Antarctic Circumpolar Wave — The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave is a coupled ocean/atmosphere wave that circles the Southern Ocean in approximately eight years. Since it is a wave 2 phenomenon (there are two peaks and two troughs in a latitude circle) at each fixed point in… …
63Antarctic flora — that included southern South America, New Zealand, and some southern island groups. Good identified Australia as its own floristic kingdom, and included New Guinea and New Caledonia in the Paleotropical floristic kingdom, because of the influx of …
64Antarctic ice sheet — The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 30 million cubic… …
65Antarctic Treaty Secretariat — The Antarctic Treaty Secretariat is an organization created on September 2004 by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) for the management of several ATCM tasks such as the support of the annual meeting of signatory countries of the… …
66Antarctic Snow Cruiser — The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a vehicle designed from 1937 to 1939 under the direction of Thomas Poulter, intended to facilitate transport in the Antarctic. While having several innovative features, it generally failed to operate as hoped under… …
67Antarctic Heritage Trust — Currently the Antarctic Heritage Trust consists of two partners, the Antarctic Heritage Trust (New Zealand) which was formed in 1987 and the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, founded in 1993. The Trust is a coalition established to promote the… …
68Antarctic Cold Reversal — The Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) was an important episode of cooling in the climate history of the Earth, during the deglaciation at the close of the last ice age. It illustrates the complexity of the climate changes at the transition from the… …
69Antarctic Tern — Taxobox name = Antarctic Tern status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Sternidae genus = Sterna species = S. vittata binomial = Sterna vittata binomial authority =… …
70Antarctic Institute of Canada — The Antarctic Institute of Canada, founded in 1985 in Alberta, Canada by Austin Mardon, is devoted to the furthering of research and support of Antarctic studies in Canada. It has lobbied the federal government for over two decades for Canada to… …
