Geography of Antarctica

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

GPTKB entity

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	geography topic
gptkbp:area	about 14 million square kilometers
gptkbp:borderedBy	gptkb:Southern_Ocean
gptkbp:climate	polar
gptkbp:contains	gptkb:Mount_Fridtjof_Nansen gptkb:Oates_Land gptkb:island gptkb:Berkner_Island gptkb:Byrd_Glacier gptkb:Coats_Land gptkb:Cook_Mountains gptkb:Eights_Coast gptkb:Enderby_Land gptkb:King_Haakon_VII_Sea gptkb:Mount_Sidley gptkb:Palmer_Land gptkb:Pine_Island_Glacier gptkb:Queen_Elizabeth_Range gptkb:Queen_Fabiola_Mountains gptkb:Siple_Coast gptkb:Thurston_Island gptkb:Thwaites_Glacier gptkb:Totten_Glacier gptkb:Victoria_Land gptkb:Wilkes_Land gptkb:Charcot_Island gptkb:David_Glacier gptkb:Denman_Glacier gptkb:Gamburtsev_Mountain_Range gptkb:Mertz_Glacier gptkb:George_V_Land gptkb:Lambert_Glacier gptkb:Prince_Charles_Mountains gptkb:Amundsen_Sea gptkb:Bellingshausen_Sea gptkb:Dry_Valleys gptkb:Ellsworth_Mountains gptkb:Lake_Vostok gptkb:Marie_Byrd_Land gptkb:Mount_Berlin gptkb:Peter_I_Island gptkb:Ross_Sea gptkb:South_Orkney_Islands gptkb:South_Pole gptkb:South_Sandwich_Islands gptkb:South_Shetland_Islands gptkb:Weddell_Sea gptkb:Mount_Craddock gptkb:Mount_Markham gptkb:Mount_Murphy gptkb:Mount_Shinn gptkb:Mount_Siple gptkb:Mount_Tyree gptkb:Mount_Vinson gptkb:Mount_Waesche gptkb:Adélie_Land gptkb:Alexander_Island gptkb:Antarctic_Circle gptkb:Graham_Land gptkb:Horlick_Mountains gptkb:Mount_Kirkpatrick gptkb:Pensacola_Mountains gptkb:Queen_Alexandra_Range gptkb:Queen_Maud_Mountains gptkb:Shackleton_Range gptkb:Dronning_Maud_Land gptkb:Mount_Minto fjords volcanoes glaciers mountain ranges coastal cliffs plateaus ridges ice shelves icebergs basins subglacial lakes subglacial mountains nunataks subglacial valleys Ruppert Coast
gptkbp:coveredBy	sea ice
gptkbp:describes	gptkb:Antarctica
gptkbp:highestPoint	gptkb:Vinson_Massif
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Geography of Antarctica
gptkbp:ice_sheet_thickness	up to 4.8 km
gptkbp:includes	gptkb:East_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet gptkb:West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet gptkb:Antarctic_Peninsula gptkb:Mount_Erebus gptkb:Ronne_Ice_Shelf gptkb:Ross_Ice_Shelf gptkb:Transantarctic_Mountains gptkb:Vinson_Massif
gptkbp:lowestPoint	gptkb:Bentley_Subglacial_Trench
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Klovsky_Descent
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8