Antarctic region

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Antarctic_region

GPTKB entity

Statements (91)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	geographical region
gptkbp:area	about 14 million square kilometers
gptkbp:averageSpeed	-57°C (winter interior)
gptkbp:characterizedBy	extreme cold permanent ice sheets polar ice
gptkbp:climate	polar
gptkbp:contains	gptkb:Oates_Land gptkb:Amundsen-Scott_South_Pole_Station gptkb:Antarctica gptkb:McMurdo_Station gptkb:Palmer_Station gptkb:Scotia_Sea gptkb:South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands gptkb:Southern_Ocean gptkb:Coats_Land gptkb:Deception_Island gptkb:Elephant_Island gptkb:Ellsworth_Land gptkb:Enderby_Land gptkb:Filchner-Ronne_Ice_Shelf gptkb:King_George_Island gptkb:Larsen_Ice_Shelf gptkb:Mount_Sidley gptkb:Rothera_Research_Station gptkb:Victoria_Land gptkb:Vostok_Station gptkb:Wilkes_Land gptkb:Davis_Station gptkb:Halley_Research_Station gptkb:Mirny_Station gptkb:Neumayer_Station gptkb:Great_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet gptkb:South_Pole_Station gptkb:George_V_Land gptkb:Amundsen_Sea gptkb:Antarctic_Peninsula gptkb:Balleny_Islands gptkb:Bellingshausen_Sea gptkb:Bouvet_Island gptkb:Dry_Valleys gptkb:Heard_Island gptkb:Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands gptkb:Marie_Byrd_Land gptkb:McDonald_Islands gptkb:Mount_Erebus gptkb:Peter_I_Island gptkb:Queen_Maud_Land gptkb:Ross_Ice_Shelf gptkb:Ross_Sea gptkb:South_Georgia_Island gptkb:South_Orkney_Islands gptkb:South_Pole gptkb:South_Sandwich_Islands gptkb:South_Shetland_Islands gptkb:Transantarctic_Mountains gptkb:Weddell_Sea gptkb:Casey_Station gptkb:Princess_Elizabeth_Land gptkb:Mount_Vinson gptkb:Adélie_Land gptkb:East_Antarctica gptkb:Graham_Land gptkb:Mawson_Station gptkb:West_Antarctica gptkb:Mac._Robertson_Land gptkb:Concordia_Station gptkb:Dronning_Maud_Land
gptkbp:explores	James Cook
gptkbp:firstSightedIn	1820
gptkbp:governedBy	gptkb:Antarctic_Treaty_System
gptkbp:hasNo	permanent human population
gptkbp:highestPoint	gptkb:Vinson_Massif
gptkbp:homeTo	krill seals various seabirds penguins
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Antarctic region
gptkbp:includes	gptkb:South_Pole
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:Southern_Hemisphere
gptkbp:lowestPoint	gptkb:Bentley_Subglacial_Trench
gptkbp:protectedBy	gptkb:Environmental_Protocol_to_the_Antarctic_Treaty
gptkbp:surroundedBy	gptkb:Southern_Ocean
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Chionididae gptkb:Antarctica_(claimed) gptkb:Grupo_de_Aviación_N°_48 gptkb:Grupo_de_Aviación_N°_63 gptkb:Leptonychotes gptkb:Antarctic_fur_seal gptkb:Острова_Южные_Шетландские_и_Южные_Оркнейские_и_Южные_Сандвичевы_и_Южная_Георгия
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6