Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Antarctic, The (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
The Antarctic (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Continent
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
name for the whole area S of the Antarctic Convergence, comprising Antarctica (q.v.), together with its off-lying and oceanic islands, ice shelves, sea ice and ocean, including South Orkney Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. In earlier usage the term and its equivalents variously referred to the area S of the Antarctic Circle, the lat. 60°S, the average ice limit, the mean isotherm of 10°C in the warmest month of the year, etc., all of which definitions have been found untenable. S d-Polar Gebiet, S d-Polar-Gebietes, S d-PolarRegionen (Neumayer, 1872a, p.120, 123). Antarktis (Reiter, 1888, Tafel 1 facing p.30). The Antarctic (Balch, 1902, p.12; BA, 1948, p.1; APC, 1982, p. 3). Terres Antarctiques (Ar towski, 1908, p.27). South Polar Regions (Mawson, 1911). S dpolarwelt (Mecking, 1914). Antarctic Regions (Hayes, 1928, p.5; USHO chart 5411, 1940; BA, 1948, p.5). Sydpolomrdet (Risting, 1929, p.109). Régions Polaires Australes (Zimmermann, 1930). L'Antarctique (France. SHM, 1937, p.40). Región Antártica (Rodriguez, 1941, map p.10). La Antártida (Pinochet de la Barra, 1944). Sudpolsomrdene (Aagaard, 1944, p.14). Antártida (Alazraqui, 1947). La Antártica (Pinochet de la Barra, 1948). Antarktika (Soviet Union. BSE, 1950a, p.484). Antártico [adjectival form wrongly used as a substantive or place-name] (Martinez Moreno, 1951, p.8). Zona Antártica (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.46). Antarktyka (Machowski, 1953). El Antártico (Beltramino, 1958, p.447). Antarctis (Knapp, 1958, p.550). South Polar Region (Soviet Union. AA, 1967, p.313).
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