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Antarctica
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antarctica antárctica
English
thumb|alt=Refer to caption|Antarctica in a satellite photo
Etymology
From en la-new Antarctica, from en grc ἀνταρκτικός, from grc ἀντι- anti-, against, opposed + grc ἀρκτικός Arctic, from grc ἄρκτος bear.
Pronunciation
en /ˌænˈtɑːktɪkə/ UK
en /æntˈɑɹ(k)tɪkə/ /ænˈtɑɹ(k)tɪkə/ US
en en-us-Antarctica.ogg US
en /ænˈtɐːktɪkə/ AU
en /əɳˈʈɑ(ɾ)(k)tɪka/ Indic
ănt-ärk′tĭ-kə ănt-är′tĭ-kəAntarctica 77 3
ănt′ärk′tĭ-kə ănt′är′tĭ-kəAnt·arc·ti·ca 32 2
Proper noun
en Q51en The southernmost <<continent>>, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
en 1891 Hugh Robert Mill Hugh Robert Mill THE CONTINENTAL AREA The Realm of Nature: An Outline of Physiography https://archive.org/details/realmofnatureout00millrich/ London John Murray 1892 30341185 274 https://archive.org/details/realmofnatureout00millrich/page/274/ The five largest islands or peninsulas in which the crests of the World Ridges break through the uniform covering of the hydrosphere are termed continents, and designated by the names Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia. They are distinguished from other islands and peninsulas by size alone, Australia being ten times larger than New Guinea, and Africa ten times larger than Arabia, these being the greatest island and peninsula not called continents. The elevated region round the South Pole is crowned by the unexplored and scarcely discovered continent of Antarctica.
en 1894 August Cyrus C. Adams Antarctic Exploration w:The American Naturalist https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002158118/page/n96/ XXVIII 332 w:New York Sun 0003-0147 45446849 696 https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002158118/page/696/ Dr. Murray believes that Alexander I. Land is a part of the west coast of Graham's Land, and that this landmass, which Biscoe and Larsen proved to widen rapidly toward the south, is only a peninsula of the continent of Antarctica.
en 1988-04-14 Richard Fifield Frozen assets of the ice cores New Scientist 1608 28 https://books.google.com/books?id=8CLAlJR6kuEC&pg=PA28&dq=%22glaciologists%22&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22glaciologists%22&f=false To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
en Gianluca Mezzofiore Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/antarctica-new-zealand-cool-job-trnd 2019-09-26 The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet. https://web.archive.org/web/20200605192909/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/antarctica-new-zealand-cool-job-trnd/ 5 June 2020
loosely the Antarctic
Derived terms
en antarcticite Westarctica
Related terms
en Antarctic
en Antarctican
Translations
Q51 southernmost continent
Acehnese: ace Antartika
Afrikaans: af Antarktika
Albanian: sq Antarktidë f
Amharic: am አንታርክቲካ
Arabic: ar أَنْتَارْكِتِيكَا f, ar الْقُطْبُ الْجَنُوبِيّ f
Egyptian Arabic: arz القطب الجنوبي m el-quṭb el-ganūbi, arz أنترتيكا f ʔāntartīka
Aragonese: an Antarctida f
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܐܲܢܛܵܪܬܝܼܩܵܐ f Ānṭartīqa
Armenian: hy Անտարկտիդա the continent, hy Անտարկտիկա the region
Asturian: ast L'Antártida f
Azerbaijani: az Antarktida
Bashkir: ba Антарктида
Basque: eu Antartika
Belarusian: be Антаркты́да f
Bengali: bn আন্টার্কটিকা
Bikol:
Central Bikol: bcl Antartika
Bislama: bi Antarktik
Breton: br Antarktika
Bulgarian: bg Антаркти́да f
Burmese: my အန္တာတိက
Buryat: bua Антарктида
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Антарктіда f
Catalan: ca Antàrtida f
Cebuano: ceb Antartika
Chechen: ce Антарктида
Cherokee: chr ᏧᏁᏍᏓᎸ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 南極洲 Nánjízhōu
Chuvash: cv Антарктида Антаркти́да
Cornish: kw Antarktika
Corsican: co Antartide m
Crimean Tatar: crh Antarktida
Czech: cs Antarktida f
Danish: da Antarktis
Dutch: nl Antarctica n
Dzongkha: dz ཨེན་ཊཱག་ཊི་ཀ་
Esperanto: eo Antarkto
Estonian: et Antarktis, et Lõunamanner figurative
Extremaduran: ext Antáltia f
Faroese: fo Antarktis
Finnish: fi Etelämanner, fi Antarktis, fi Etelänapamanner
Franco-Provençal: frp Antartica f
French: fr Antarctique m
Frisian:
North Frisian: frr Antarktikaa
Saterland Frisian: stq Antarktikoa
West Frisian: fy Antarktika n
Friulian: fur Antartic m
Galician: gl Antártida
Georgian: ka ანტარქტიდა
German: de Antarktika f
Bavarian: bar Antarktika
Central Franconian: gmw-cfr Süüdpool
Greek: el Ανταρκτική f
Pontic Greek: pnt Ανταρκτικήν
Greenlandic: kl Qalasersuaq Kujalleq
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug Antártida
Gujarati: gu ઍન્ટાર્કટિકા
Haitian Creole: ht Antatik
Hawaiian: haw ‘Aneʻālika
Hebrew: he אַנְטַרְקְטִיקָה f antártika
Hindi: hi अंटार्कटिका m
Hungarian: hu Antarktisz, hu Antarktika
Icelandic: is Suðurskautslandið n, is Suðurheimskautslandið n, is Antarktíka f, is Suðurskautsálfa f
Ido: io Antarktika
Igbo: ig Antarctica
Ilocano: ilo Antartika
Indonesian: id Antartika, id Antarktika
Ingush: inh Антарктида
Interlingua: ia Antarctica
Irish: ga Antartaice f
Italian: it Antartide
Jamaican Creole: jam Antaatika
Japanese: ja 南極大陸 なんきょくたいりく, nankyoku tairiku
Javanese: jv Antartika
Kabiye: kbp Antarɩtiki
Kalmyk: xal Антарктик
Kannada: kn ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ
Karachay-Balkar: krc Антарктида
Karakalpak: kaa Antarktika
Kashubian: csb Antarktida f
Kazakh: kk Антарктида
Khmer: km អង់តាទិក
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: koi Антарктида
Korean: ko 남극대륙(南極大陸)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Antarktîka
Kyrgyz: ky Антарктида
Ladin: lld
Ladino: lad Antartika
Lakota: lkt Mílahaŋska
Lao: lo ອັນຕາກຕິກ
Latin: la Antarctica f
Latvian: lv Antarktīda f, lv Antarktika f
Lezgi: lez Антарктида
Ligurian: lij Antartide m
Limburgish: li Antarctica n
Lithuanian: lt Antarktida
Livvi: olo Antarktidu
Lombard: lmo Antartid m
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Antarktika f
Luxembourgish: lb Antarktis f
Macedonian: mk Анта́рктик m
Malagasy: mg Antartika
Malay: ms Antartika
Malayalam: ml അന്റാർട്ടിക്ക
Maltese: mt Antartika
Manx: gv Antarctagh f
Māori: mi Te Tiri o Te Moana, mi Te Kōpakatanga (ki te Tonga)
Marathi: mr अंटार्क्टिका
Mari:
Eastern Mari: mhr Антарктиде
Minangkabau: min Antarktika
Mingrelian: xmf ანტარქტიდა
Mirandese: mwl Antártica f, mwl Antártida f
Mongolian: mn Антарктид
Nahuatl: nah Antartida
Navajo: nv Shádiʼááhjí Honeezkʼazii, nv Shádiʼááhjí kéyah yistinígíí
Neapolitan: nap Antartide m
Norman: nrf Antarctique m
Northern Sotho: nso Antarctica
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Antarktika
Nynorsk: nn Antarktika
Occitan: oc Antartida f
Odia: or ଆଣ୍ଟର୍କଟିକା
Ossetian: os Антарктидӕ Антарктидæ
Papiamentu: pap Antartica f
Persian: fa جنوبگان jonubegân
Picard: pcd Intarctike
Piedmontese: pms Antàrtide m
Pitcairn-Norfolk: pih Antarktida
Polish: pl Antarktyda f
Portuguese: pt Antártica f, pt Antártida f
Punjabi: pa ਅੰਟਾਰਕਟਿਕਾ
Quechua: qu Antartika
Romanian: ro Antarctica, ro Antarctida f
Russian: ru Антаркти́да f
Rwanda-Rundi: rw Antarigitika
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Antárktis
Samoan: sm Anetatika
Samogitian: sgs Antarktėda f
Sanskrit: sa दक्षिणध्रुवीयमहाद्वीपः m dakṣiṇadhruviyamahādvīpaḥ
Santali: sat ᱟᱱᱴᱟᱨᱠᱚᱴᱤᱠᱟ
Sardinian: sc Antàrticu m
Scots: sco Antarcticae
Scottish Gaelic: gd Antartaig f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Антарктик m
Latin: sh Antarktik m
Shona: sn Antarctica
Sicilian: scn Antàrtidi m
Silesian: szl Antarktyda f
Sinhalese: si ඇන්ටාක්ටිකාව
Slovak: sk Antarktída f
Slovene: sl Antárktika f
Somali: so Antarktika
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Antarktika f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Antarktika f
Spanish: es Antártida f, es Antártica f
Sundanese: su Antartika
Swahili: sw Antaktika
Swedish: sv Antarktis
Tagalog: tl Antarctica
Tajik: tg Антарктида
Tamil: ta அந்தாட்டிக்கா, ta அண்டார்டிகா
Tarantino: roa-tar Antartide m
Tatar: tt Антарктида
Telugu: te అంటార్కిటికా
Tetum: tet Antártida
Thai: th แอนตาร์กติกา
Tibetan: bo ལྷོ་མཐའི་གླིང
Tigrinya: ti ኣንታርቲካ
Tongan: to ʻAnetātika
Tsonga: ts Antakthika
Tulu: tcy ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ
Turkish: tr Antarktika
Turkmen: tk Antarktika, tk Antarktida the continent
Ukrainian: uk Антаркти́да f
Urdu: ur انٹارکٹکا m aṇṭārkṭikā
Uzbek: uz Antarktida
Venetan: vec Antartide m
Veps: vep Antarktid
Vietnamese: vi Châu Nam Cực (vi 洲南極)
Volapük: vo
Võro: vro Antarktis
Votic: vot
Walloon: wa Antartike m
Waray-Waray: war Antartika
Welsh: cy Antarctig f
West Flemish: vls Antarctica n
Wolaytta: wal Anttarkitika
Wolof: wo Dottub Bëj-saalum
Yakut: sah Антарктика
Yiddish: yi אַנטאַרקטיקאַ
Zazaki: zza Antarktika
Zealandic: zea Antartica
Zhuang: za Namzgigcouh
Zulu: zu i-Antaktika
Antarctic ecozone Antarctic
See also
:Category:Antarctic English
en ant-
en Arctic
en Arctic Circle
References
Dutch
nl:
Etymology
Ultimately from nl la Antarctica. nl
Pronunciation
nl /ɑnˈtɑr(k).ti.kaː/ /ɑntˈɑr(k).ti.kaː/
nl Nl-Antarctica.ogg
nl Ant arc ti ca
Proper noun
n
nl Antarctica Q51
Derived terms
nl Antarctisch
nl antarctisch
Latin
la:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Antarctica<1>
la New Latin la Antarctica Q51
Declension
Antarctica<1>
Romanian
ro:
Pronunciation
ro [anˈtark.tika]
Proper noun
f
ro Antarctica Q51
Declension
Antarctic sg
See also
Welsh
cy:
Proper noun
f
cy Antarctica Q51
See also