Western Antarctica is covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

West Antarctica on the left.

At any event, the far southern continental margins of Antarctica and West Gondwana became increasingly less barren.

This, when combined with drumlin formation identified through imaging beneath the West Antarctica ice, resulted in a significant step in geomorphologic understanding.

In 2007 drumlins were observed to be forming beneath the ice of a West Antarctica glacier.

Most reconstructions show Rodinia's core was formed by the North American craton ( the later paleocontinent of Laurentia ), surrounded in the southeast with the East European craton ( the later paleocontinent of Baltica ), the Amazonian craton (" Amazonia ") and the West African craton ; in the south with the Rio de la Plata and São Francisco cratons ; in the southwest with the Congo and Kalahari cratons ; and in the northeast with Australia, India and eastern Antarctica.

As early as 850 and 800 million years ago, a rift developed between the continental masses of present-day Australia, eastern Antarctica, India and the Congo and Kalahari cratons on one side and later Laurentia, Baltica, Amazonia and the West African and Rio de la Plata cratons on the other.

Argentina claims part of Antarctica as Argentine Antarctica, an area delimited by the 25 ° West and 74 ° West meridians and the 60 ° South parallel.

East Antarctica is colder than West Antarctica because of its higher elevation.

During a recent decade, East Antarctica thickened at an average rate of about 1. 8 centimetres per year while West Antarctica showed an overall thinning of 0. 9 centimetres per year.

A high mountain, provisionally known as ' Vinson ', was long suspected to be in this part of West Antarctica, but it was not actually seen until January 1958, when it was spotted by US Navy aircraft from Byrd Station.

Territorial claims in Antarctica, with the unclaimed part of West Antarctica shown in white.

* Marble Hills, a range of hills in West Antarctica

* February 24 – Returning to West Germany from Antarctica, where in December 1984 it had become one of the first two German planes ever to land at the South Pole, Polar 3, a Dornier Do 228 operated as a survey and research airplane by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, is shot down over Western Sahara south of Dakhla by Polisario Front guerrillas, killing its entire three-man crew.

Byrd Station was the only major base in the interior of West Antarctica.

In 2011, a Nature Geoscience study using general circulation models linked Pacific Rossby waves generated by increasing central tropical Pacific temperatures to warming of the Amundsen Sea region, leading to winter and spring continental warming of Ellsworth Land and Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica via an increase in advection.

Among its prominent students are Wang Fuzhi, a celebrated philosopher in Chinese history ; Wei Yuan, a reformist who first advocated the idea of learning from the West ; Zeng Guofan, the first Chinese to initiate the Modernization Movement ( at the time called Yangwu Yundong, movement of emulate of oversea scitech and industry ) and to make arrangements for a modern factory in China ; Zuo Zongtang, a national hero who arranged to build China ’ s first navy and took great pains to defend and develop Xinjiang ; Guo Songtao, China ’ s first ambassador to a foreign country ; Cai E, a major leader in defending the Republic of China ; the first Chinese to set foot on the continent of Antarctica ; and Ci Yungui, the chief designer of China's first super computer.

* The West Antarctic Rift in Antarctica

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.

He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.

The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

There are four smaller stations in Aachen: Aachen West, Aachen Schanz, Aachen-Rothe Erde and Eilendorf.

The area of Costa Rica is 51, 100 km² of which 50, 660 km² is land and 440 km² is water, making it slightly smaller than the U. S. state of West Virginia.

The Sinai Peninsula is a triangular-shaped peninsula, about 61, 100 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in area ( slightly smaller than the U. S. state of West Virginia ).

The island along with smaller minor islands are split into eight regencies ( local government districts ); from west to east these are: Manggarai Barat ( West Manggarai ), Manggarai Tengah ( Central Manggarai ), Manggarai Timur ( East Manggarai ), Ngada, Nagekeo, Ende, Sikka and Flores Timur ( East Flores ).

There are two smaller non-municipal libraries – the Chase Library on Route 28 in West Harwich at the Dennis town line, and the Harwich Port Library on Lower bank St. in Harwich Port.

If only because there was a much smaller number of skilled artists, the quantity of icons, in the sense of panel paintings, was much smaller in the West, and in most Western settings a single diptych as an altarpiece, or in a domestic room, probably stood in place of the larger collections typical of Orthodox " icon corners ".

It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron ( and is slightly smaller than the U. S. state of West Virginia ).

East and West Burra, Muckle Roe, Papa Stour, Trondra and Vaila are smaller islands to the west of Mainland.

The Turks and Caicos Islands ( and or ; abbreviated TCI ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre.

The second floor family residence includes the Yellow Oval Room, East and West Sitting Halls, the White House Master Bedroom, President's Dining Room, the Treaty Room, Lincoln Bedroom and Queens ' Bedroom, as well as two additional bedrooms, a smaller kitchen, and a private dressing room.

In many other regions, festivities of smaller extent are organized, focused on the reenactment of traditional carnevalic customs ; for example those held in Tyrnavos ( Thessaly ), Kozani ( West Macedonia ), Rethymno ( Crete ) and in Xanthi ( East Macedonia and Thrace ).

: A collection of many smaller folk groups under Mercian control from the 7th century, including the Spaldingas around Spalding, the Bilmingas and Wideringas near Stamford, the North Gyrwe and South Gyrwe near Peterborough, the West Wixna, East Wixna, West Wille and East Wille near Ely, the Sweordora, Hurstingas and Gifle near Bedford, the Hicce around Hitchin, the Cilternsæte in the Chilterns and the Feppingas near Thame ( approx.

The smaller remaining native populations in the West Indies maintain a pride in their heritage.

From about 1600 the English, French and Dutch began to find colonies in the North American mainland and the smaller islands of the West Indies.

Since 1994, it has been broken up into three smaller provinces: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, plus parts of the province were absorbed into the North West.

While French losses were proportionally severe, the smaller but better protected Spanish trade suffered the least and it was Spanish privateers who enjoyed much of the best allied plunder of British trade, particularly in the West Indies.

This suggestion is usually shunned by residents of the other cities, for the simple reason that " Quad-Cities " doesn't sound as good ( as well as the fact that West Richland has a much smaller presence compared to the three major cities ) as well as the fact that there is already a Quad Cities on the Mississippi River with Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, Rock Island and Moline in Illinois.

Between 1978 and mid-2001, nine major carriers ( including Eastern, Midway, Braniff, Pan Am, Continental, America West Airlines, and TWA ) and more than 100 smaller airlines went bankrupt or were liquidated — including most of the dozens of new airlines founded in deregulation's aftermath.

It is one of the smaller countries in West Africa, about one eighth the size of Nigeria, its neighbor to the east.

Additionally, located adjacent to the West Hall is the Petree Hall, a smaller exhibition area that historically hosted only a single large booth.

There are significant populations at Wagga Wagga and Leeton and smaller groups at West Wyalong, Parkes, Forbes, Cootamundra, Cowra and Young.

The Central Valley covers an area of approximately, making it slightly smaller than the state of West Virginia and about 13. 7 % of California's total area.