Antarctica

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Antarctica is one of the continents, lying almost completely within the south polar circle.

Selected maps are included in the  Wikimedia Atlas of Antarctica.

Landscapes

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  Cuverville Island
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  Paradise Harbor
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  McMurdo dry valley
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  Gerlache Strait
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  Lemaire Channel
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  Gerlache Strait
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  Gerlache Strait
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  Mt Herschel
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  Flight over Antarctica
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  Campbell Ridges from Creswick Gap
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  Denman Glacier
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  Huron Glacier
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  Port Lochry
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  Field work on Melnik Peak
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  Tangra Mountains
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  Renier Point
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  Hannah Point
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  Atanasoff Nunatak
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  Bransfield Strait
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  Ongal Peak
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  Antarctic Peninsula glacier

Islands

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  Booth Island and Mount Scott on Antarctic Peninsula.
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  Guébriant Islands seen from Rothera Point
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  Adelaide Island, Mackay Point
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  Adelaide Island, Wormald Ice Piedmont
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  Adelaide Island, Sighing Peak and Stonehouse Bay
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  Webb Island
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  Laubeuf Fjord with Wyatt Island and Webb Island
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  Laubeuf Fjord with Webb Island
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  The southern 'spit' of Webb Island
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  Elephant Island, 1842

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Petermann Island

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  Petermann Island
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  Wilhelm Archipealogo - Petermann Island
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Ice shelves and icebergs

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  Iceberg Drake Strait
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  Weddel Sea
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  Table Iceberg
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  Icebergs Gerlach Strait
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  summer ice melting
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Ships

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  Nordnorge
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  Deception Island
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  Petermann Island
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  Deception Island (Antarctica).
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History

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  Amundsen Expedition, 1911-12
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  Scott's party at the South Pole
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Maps and drawings

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  Flag of Antarctica
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  globe
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  US Antarctic program logo
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  NASA satellite composite image (Blue Marble); orthographic projection; high resolution; polar filter
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  Antarctica (relief image)
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  Map of Antarctica with Neuschwabenland highlighted
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  Map of Antarctica
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  Comparison Europe-Antarctica
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  ice
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  Antarctic Bases
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  under ice lakes
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  low air pressure

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Miscellaneous

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  Balloon carrying scientific payload
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  Recovery of a meteorite in Antarctica
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  Croquet player
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  Mummified Seal carcass in McMurdo Dry Valleys
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  Scientific stations in Antarctica
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  Jellyfish
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  Dead emperor penguin
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  Union Glacier Camp
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  Saint Kliment Ohridski base (Bulgaria)
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  Camp Academia
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  Post office 1091, Bulgarian Mail
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  Ukrainian