For a time, McMurdo had Antarctica's only television station, AFAN-TV, running vintage programs provided by the military.

The leopard seal is second only to the orca among Antarctica's top predators.

The Palmer Station on Anvers Island is located at () and is Antarctica's only U. S. station north of the Antarctic Circle.

A scene at McMurdo Station Today, McMurdo Station is Antarctica's largest community and a functional, modern day science station, which includes a harbour, three airfields ( two seasonal ), a heliport and more than 100 buildings, including the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center.

The world's southmost harbor, located at Antarctica's Winter Quarters Bay ( 77 ° 50 ′ South ), is potentially ice-free, depending on the summertime pack ice conditions.

" Lake East ") is the largest of Antarctica's more than 140 sub-glacial lakes.

The station stands at an elevation of 2, 835 meters ( 9, 301 ft ) on the interior of Antarctica's nearly featureless ice sheet, which is about 2, 850 meters ( 9, 350 ft ) thick at that location.

While there are no indigenous human cultures, there is a complex ecosystem, especially along Antarctica's coastal zones.

Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest mountain, is also named after him, together with the related Mount Vinson and Vinson Plateau.

Antarctica's two flowering plant species, the Antarctic hair grass ( Deschampsia antarctica ) and Antarctic pearlwort ( Colobanthus quitensis ) are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula, including offshore islands, where the climate is relatively mild.

The region is one of the world's most extreme deserts, and includes many interesting features including Lake Vida and the Onyx River, Antarctica's longest river.

Among the geographical features bearing his name is Antarctica's Mount Markham, named after him by Scott in 1902.

King George Island is one of Antarctica's most polluted places

Mount Markham is a twin-peaked massif surmounting the north end of Antarctica's Markham Plateau.

Mount Kirkpatrick is a lofty, generally ice-free mountain in Antarctica's Queen Alexandra Range.

The Drygalski Ice Tongue or Drygalski Barrier or Drygalski Glacier Tongue is a glacier in Antarctica, located on the Scott Coast, in the northern McMurdo Sound of Antarctica's Ross Dependency, north of Ross Island.

Drygalski Ice Tongue is stable by the standards of Antarctica's icefloes, and stretches out to sea from the David Glacier, reaching the sea from a valley in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land.

Beaufort Island is an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea.

Extending approximately 15, 500 kilometres ( 9, 600 mi ) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the northern extent of the circumpolar Southern Ocean at 60 ° S ( older definitions extend it to Antarctica's Ross Sea ), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5 ° N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19, 800 kilometres ( 12, 300 mi ) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia – halfway across the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moon.

A short excerpt of " 3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters " was used as a sample at the end of The Moon & Antarctica's " A Different City ".

The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km ( 35 mi ) long and wide.

Antarctica's largest scientific base, the United States ' McMurdo Station, as well as the New Zealand Scott Base are located on the southern shore of the island.

Bitter katabatic winds spilling down from the Antarctic polar plateau into McMurdo Sound demonstrate Antarctica's status as the coldest and windiest continent in the world.

However, their work rejects terraforming and Mars has been designated as a " planet for science ", analogously to Antarctica's current status as an ecologically preserved site for managed scientific experimentation.

In an article entitled " The Snows of Kilimanjaro " in l ' Express, a French weekly periodic, Allègre cited evidence that Antarctica's gaining ice and that Kilimanjaro's retreating snow caps, among other global-warming concerns, can come from natural causes.

Two sections of Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf broke apart into hundreds of unusually small fragments ( hundreds of meters wide or less ) in 1995 and 2002.

The Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, which both flow into the Amundsen Sea, are two of Antarctica's largest five.

One of the first ascents took place on December 18 when Pete Schoening, William Long, James Corbet and John Evans reached the summit of Vinson Massif, one of the world's " Seven Summits " and Antarctica's highest mountain.

Antarctica's two flowering plant species, the Antarctic hair grass ( Deschampsia antarctica ) and Antarctic pearlwort ( Colobanthus quitensis ), are found on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula.

* 1628 – The Swedish warship sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.

This small harbour is only for the use of the pilot service, government vessels and the Hoek van Holland lifeboat.

The only major harbour is James Bay at Jamestown, Saint Helena, which has customs and immigration buildings.

The only craft in military service thereafter were four Zodiac Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats in São Tomé harbour and one in Príncipe. Improvements to naval capabilities are considered vital to increase security in the exclusive economic zone ( EEZ ) to protect oil concerns and to stem the rise of coastal trafficking operations in the Gulf of Guinea area.

Yacht races may be over a simple course of only a few miles, as in the harbour racing of the International One Design ; long-distance, open-ocean races, like the Bermuda Race ; or epic trans-global contests such as the Global Challenge, Volvo Ocean Race, Clipper Round the World Race and Mini Transat 6. 50.

Ancona was founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse about 387 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning " elbow "; the harbour to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow.

Nukualofa harbour is the only deep-water harbour of the island, which determined its selection as the site for the capital.

The old harbour has a breakwater 250 metres long and it is only able to receive three small ships at a time.

In 1793 the Dutch authority in the Cape decided to take control of Walvis bay, since it was the only good deep-water harbour along the Skeleton Coast.

Ptolemy, only thirteen years old at that time, had set up a throne for himself on the harbour, from where he watched as on September 28, 48 BC, Pompey was murdered by one of his former officers, now in Ptolemaic service.

They also began to attempt to block the harbour, but it is only slightly possible that the Teleri drew first blood.

The coastline itself, being fairly smooth, provides only one good natural harbour, at Saldanha Bay north of Cape Town.

* In Sergio Leone's sword and sandal film Il Colosso di Rodi ( 1961 ) the Colossus stands spread-legged over the only entrance to Rhodes ' harbour.

It was only with great effort in the 1950s and 1960s that Verrazzano's name and reputation as the European discoverer of the harbour was re-established during an effort to have the newly built Narrows bridge named after him.

This is the only archaeological find with an inscription mentioning the name " Pontius Pilatus "; a double aqueduct that brought water from springs at the foot of Mount Carmel ; a boundary wall ; and a 200 ft ( 60 m ) wide moat protecting the harbour to the south and west.

The town is a major port ( with the closure of Sant Feliu the only commercial harbour in the Province of Girona ) with one of the last remaining fishing fleets on this part of the Mediterranean coast.

Now the harbour is silted up, and only small boats can make their way out past Blakeney Point to the sea.

The only public transport to Schiermonnikoog is a ferry from the lock and harbour complex of Lauwersoog.

Mammals which call these places home include the red fox, long-tailed weasel, mink, muskrat, woodchuck, several bat species, bottlenose dolphins, harbour porpoises and possibly river otters which are close to local extinction in Long Island with only an estimated 8 individuals thought to have recently migrated from Connecticut.

The old harbour has been enlarged by a new marina and the beach at Vesterstrand with its colourful little beach huts is only a few minutes ' walk from the town and the harbour.

Viscount Montgomery's harbour ( 1626 ; improved 1640 ), superseding what had hitherto been probably only a small jetty, was built and maintained as a result of the Royal Warrant of 1616 which limited travel between the Ards and the Rhins of Galloway to this port, and that at Portpatrick also owned by Montgomery.

At that time it was the only real harbour town along the Danish west coast, being sheltered from the North Sea by the wall of Holmsland Dunes ( Holmsland Klit ).