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ANTARCTICA
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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 "Antarctica"):
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 ("Antarctica" is a part of...):
Antarctic; Antarctic Zone; South Frigid Zone (the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters)
Context examples:
For a long time, South America — after its disconnect from Antarctica — has been thought of as an island continent.
(First-ever fossil monkey found in North America, NSF)
The research was conducted in part at NSF's McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research site in Antarctica, with additional work throughout the Arctic.
(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)
Islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.
(Heard Island and McDonald Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It's also thought to be among the most stable, not gaining or losing mass even as ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland shrink.
(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)
A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica, southeast of the French Southern and Antarctic Islands.
(Heard Island and McDonald Islands, NCI Thesaurus)
After training a network of telescopes stretching from Hawaii to Antarctica to Spain at the heart of our galaxy for five nights running, astronomers said Wednesday they may have snapped the first-ever picture of a black hole.
(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Pine Island Glacier is one of the most inhospitable and remote areas of Antarctica, so to get all the equipment needed to hot-water drill through the ice shelf required a major effort from our collaborators at the U.S. Antarctic Program, said James Smith, a marine geologist with BAS.
(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)
The results highlight how the interaction between ocean conditions and the bedrock beneath a glacier can influence the glacier's evolution, with implications for understanding future ice loss from Antarctica and global sea level rise.
(Studies Offer New Glimpse of Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
In the 1980s the colony on Pig Island in the sub-Antarctic archipelago of Crozet, about halfway between the tip of Africa and Antarctica, was estimated to contain some two million of the flightless birds.
(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)
In a study of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, which covers an area roughly the size of France, the scientists spent several years building up a record of how the north-west sector of this vast ice shelf interacts with the ocean beneath it.
(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
