This usage has been regarded as Eurocentric by some, and the alternative terms Lesser Antarctica and Greater Antarctica ( respectively ) are sometimes preferred.

Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open area due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, as well as land.

Antarctica has 20 airports, but there are no developed public-access airports or landing facilities.

Of the three fossil fuels, coal has the most widely distributed reserves ; coal is mined in over 100 countries, and on all continents except Antarctica.

In Antarctica, Ecuador has maintained a peaceful research station for scientific study in the British-claimed territory and is a member nation of the Antarctica Treaty.

With the addition of Sierra Leone, Africa's first floorball nation, the IFF has at least one national association on each continent of the world, with the exception of Antarctica.

Due to the low abundance of irons in collection areas such as Antarctica, where most of the meteoric material that has fallen can be recovered, it is possible that the actual percentage of iron-meteorite falls is lower than 5 %.

Layouts are physical props intended to simulate a sort of alternate reality where life is easier than either the grim existence of the colonist in their marginal off-world colonies, or even Earth, where global warming has progressed to the point that Antarctica is prime vacation resort territory.

The Arctic Tern has the furthest migration, all the way to Antarctica.

Because the only mountain-building since then has been of the Stirling Range with the rifting from Antarctica, the land is extremely eroded and ancient, with no part of the state above 1, 245 metres ( 4, 085 ft ) AHD ( at Mount Meharry in the Hamersley Range of the Pilbara region ).

Deer are widely distributed, with indigenous representatives in all continents except Antarctica and Australia, though Africa has only one native species, the Red Deer, confined to the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of the continent.

Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis ( or the southern lights ), has almost identical features to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone and is visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, New Zealand, and Australia.

Antarctica has the lowest temperature ever recorded: at Vostok Station.

A consortium, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica ( EPICA ), has drilled at Dome C in the East Antarctic ice sheet and retrieved an ice core which dates to roughly 740, 000 years old.

The international ice core community has, under the auspices of International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences ( IPICS ), defined a priority project to obtain the oldest possible ice core record from Antarctica, an ice core record reaching back to or towards 1. 5 million years ago.

Thought to have originated in northern China, this rodent has now spread to all continents except Antarctica, and is the dominant rat in Europe and much of North America — making it the most successful mammal on the planet after humans.

Antarctica is almost completely covered by ice and has no permanent human inhabitants, making it uninhabitable by rats.

The family has a cosmopolitan distribution across the world, absent only from the densest forest of central Africa, some remote oceanic islands, the high Arctic and Antarctica.

The Fabaceae has an essentially worldwide distribution, being found everywhere except Antarctica and the high arctic.

Argentina claims a section of Antarctica ( Argentine Antarctica ) but has agreed to suspend sovereignty disputes in the region as a signatory to the Antarctic Treaty.

* Piri Reis map: several ancient astronauts authors, and others such as Gavin Menzies and Charles Hapgood, suggested that this map, made by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis from a diverse range of sources centuries before Antarctica was discovered, features that continent and even has many points of continuity with modern maps of Antarctica below its ice sheets.

* 1983 – The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at.

* Record lowest levels of methane retrieved from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica.

The lowest natural temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth was at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

Only Antarctica has recorded lower official temperatures ( the lowest being near the Russian station of Vostok ).

In connection with the 1992 census, reflecting a total population of 1, 734, 305 inhabitants, there was a population growth of 7. 3 % in 10 years ( 1992 – 2002 ), the second lowest nationally, after the Region Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica.

* The lowest point in Antarctica is within the Bentley Subglacial Trench, which reaches 2, 555 metres below sea level.

* The lowest accessible point in Antarctica is the shore of Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills, which is 50 m beneath sea level.

* Antarctica has the world's lowest rainfall average ( zero at the Geographic South Pole ) and thus is the world's driest continent.

The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth was − 89. 2 ° C, in Antarctica.

Wetlands occur naturally on every continent except Antarctica.

Grasslands occur naturally on all continents except Antarctica.

Grasslands occur naturally on all continents except Antarctica.

Some scientists of Defence Research and Development Organisation who went on an expedition to Antarctica are also working to produce a bacteria that can dwell in extreme weather conditions and can be helpful in decomposing the biodegradable waste naturally.

The ducks have a cosmopolitan distribution occurring across most of the world except for Antarctica.

Mosquitoes are very widespread, occurring in all regions of the world except for Antarctica.

The Ascomycota are represented in all land ecosystems worldwide, occurring on all continents including Antarctica.

Because the family is ancient and was widely distributed long time ago, modern species commonly are present in forests of various types occurring on all continents, except Antarctica, and on many associated major islands.

* 2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories.

The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups.

The sandpipers have a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring across most of the world's land surfaces except for Antarctica and the driest deserts.

The swallows and martins have a worldwide cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every continent except Antarctica.

The genus is widespread, occurring across most of the world, except the driest deserts, rainforests and the mainland of Antarctica.

Avocets and stilts are a cosmopolitan family, being distributed on all the world's continents except Antarctica, and occurring on several oceanic islands.

* Blood Falls, an outflow of an iron oxide tainted plume of melting salty water occurring at the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica

They are abundant throughout most of the world, occurring on most continents except Antarctica.

They are typically found along the edges of streams and rivers, where they feed on algae, occurring on all continents except Antarctica.

** Anderssonia sphinx ( Strebel, 1908 ), occurring in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

" William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reacted favorably (" the dog actors will melt your heart "), but pointed out, as did other reviewers, that " Antarctica buffs " will be critical of errors, such as portraying midwinter events occurring in " balmy, blazing daylight at a time Antarctica is locked in round-the-clock darkness and temperatures of 140 degrees below.