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ANTARCTIC CONTINENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
Example:
Antarctica is twice the size of Australia
Synonyms:
Antarctic continent; Antarctica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Antarctic continent"):
Adelie Coast; Adelie Land; Terre Adelie (a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia; noted for its large colonies of penguins)
Coats Land (a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea)
Enderby Land (a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land; claimed by Australia)
Queen Maud Land (a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea; claimed by Norway)
South Pole (the southernmost point of the Earth's axis)
Victoria Land (a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land)
Wilkes Land (a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia; most of the territory is claimed by Australia)
Admiralty Range (mountains in Antarctica to the north of Victoria Land)
Antarctic Peninsula; Palmer Peninsula (a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific)
Ross Sea (an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica)
Holonyms ("Antarctic continent" is a part of...):
Antarctic; Antarctic Zone; South Frigid Zone (the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters)
