Antarctica
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Summary
Antarctica is a continent[1]. Antarctica draws 50,511 Wikipedia views per month (continent category, ranking #4 of 7).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen[3], Mikhail Lazarev[4], First Russian Antarctic expedition[5], Edward Bransfield[6], Nathaniel Palmer[7]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Antarctic Treaty area[8]
- Instance of: region[9], terra nullius[10], part of the world[11], geographic location[12]
- Top-level Internet domain: .aq[13]
- Main regulatory text: Antarctic Treaty System[14]
- Named after: anti-[15], Arctic[16]
- Contains the administrative territorial entity: French Southern and Antarctic Lands[17]
- Part of: landmass[18], Antarctic[19], Earth[20]
- Commons category: Antarctica[21]
- Located in time zone: UTC−04:00[22], UTC−03:00[23], UTC±00:00[24], UTC+03:00[25], UTC+05:00[26], UTC+06:00[27], UTC+07:00[28], UTC+08:00[29], UTC+10:00[30], UTC+11:00[31], UTC+12:00[32]
- Telephone country code: +672[33]
- Unicode character: 🇦🇶[34]
- Has part(s): West Antarctica[35], East Antarctica[36]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 28, 1820[37]
- Highest point: Vinson Massif[38]
- Located in/on physical feature: Southern Hemisphere[39]
- Topic's main category: Category:Antarctica[40]
- Commons gallery: Antarctica[41]
- Population: 1100[42], 4400[43], 5000[44], 1000[45]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Antarctica[46]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[47], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[48], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[49], 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[50], The New Student's Reference Work[51], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[52], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[53]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for Antarctica include Southern Ocean[54], an ocean[55]; Guaraná Antarctica[56], a guaraná[57], in Brazil[58], founded in 1921[59]; Belgica antarctica[60], a taxon[61]; Antarctopelta[62], a monotypic fossil taxon[63]; Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition[64], a research expedition[65]; antarcticite[66], a mineral species[67]; and Australian-Antarctic Basin[68], an oceanic basin[69].
Why It Matters
Antarctica has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[70] Antarctica is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[71]
Entities named for Antarctica include Southern Ocean[54], an ocean[55]; Guaraná Antarctica[56], a guaraná[57], in Brazil[58], founded in 1921[59]; Belgica antarctica[60], a taxon[61]; Antarctopelta[62], a monotypic fossil taxon[63]; Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition[64], a research expedition[65]; and antarcticite[66], a mineral species[67].