Antarctic continent
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- noun
- /ænˈtɑrk.tɪk ˈkɒn.tɪ.nənt/
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continente antártico
- One way to determine the significance of dispersal is to examine the genetic diversity of a widely distributed soil invertebrate from the Antarctic continent; the first such analysis has recently been carried out (Courtright et al. in press).
And he wanted to be the first person to travel by land over the Antarctic continent.
- And he wanted to be the first person to travel by land over the Antarctic continent.
Examples
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The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the coldest and driest deserts in the world and are representative of the 2% of the Antarctic continent that is ice-free.
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In February 2001, these two former schoolteachers became the first women to cross the Antarctic continent by ski and sail, pursuing a journey first attempted by Shackleton himself.
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Ice also forms on the ocean's surface during winter around the Antarctic continent and throughout the Arctic Ocean and its adjacent seas.
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He did it to save the men he had taken south with him in what became his failed attempt to lead the first team to cross the Antarctic continent.
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And as a result, the life forms that are found there are remarkably similar to the animals that live in the shallow seas surrounding the Antarctic continent.
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But the panel also expected that climate change would trigger an increase in snowfall over the Antarctic continent, as increased evaporation from the oceans puts more moisture into the air.
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The Antarctic continent is 98 percent covered by ice, centered almost exactly on the South Pole, and surrounded by a vast sweep of ocean (see Figure 1 on page 7).
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Shackleton replied that there were "no vacancies for the opposite sex on the expedition," and indeed, no woman so much as set foot on the Antarctic continent until Caroline Mikkelson, the wife of a Norwegian whaling captain, alighted briefly in 1935.
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The general structure of the food web in Lake Bonney reveals well-developed microbial linkages that also exist in other lakes on the Antarctic continent (Laybourn-Parry 1997).
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Researchers from around the world collaborate to study climate change effects on the Antarctic continent.
Synonyms
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A very cold continent around the South Pole covered mostly by ice
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Antarctic' (located near the South Pole) with 'continent' (a large continuous landmass): together they denote the continent around the South Pole. This modifier–noun composition is a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
The name Antarctic continent comes from old words meaning 'opposite the north': anti- means 'opposite' and Arctic was the name for the north because of the 'bear' stars. So the name points to the cold land on the other side of the Earth, around the South Pole, which is why it means the very cold continent at the bottom of the world.