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Antarctica en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ænˈtɑɹ(k)tɪkə/ (US)
  • /æntˈɑɹ(k)tɪkə/ (US)
  • ănt-ärk′tĭ-kə
  • /ˌænˈtɑːktɪkə/ (UK)
  • /əɳˈʈɑ(ɾ)(k)tɪka/ (South-Asia)
  • /ænˈtɐːktɪkə/ (Australia)
  • ănt′ärk′tĭ-kə
  • ănt′är′tĭ-kə
  • ănt-är′tĭ-kə
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From New Latin Antarctica, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντι- (anti-, “anti-, against, opposed”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).

Meanings

  1. The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
    • The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet. 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, in CNN:
    • Dr. Murray believes that Alexander I. Land is a part of the west coast of Graham's Land, and that this landmass, which Biscoe and Larsen proved to widen rapidly toward the south, is only a peninsula of the continent of Antarctica. 1894 August, Cyrus C. Adams, “Antarctic Exploration”, in The American Naturalist, volume XXVIII, number 332, sourced from New York Sun, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 696:
    • To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres. 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
    • The five largest islands or peninsulas in which the crests of the World Ridges break through the uniform covering of the hydrosphere are termed continents, and designated by the names Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia. They are distinguished from other islands and peninsulas by size alone, Australia being ten times larger than New Guinea, and Africa ten times larger than Arabia, these being the greatest island and peninsula not called continents. The elevated region round the South Pole is crowned by the unexplored and scarcely discovered continent of Antarctica. 1891, Hugh Robert Mill, “THE CONTINENTAL AREA”, in The Realm of Nature: An Outline of Physiography, London: John Murray, published 1892, →OCLC, page 274:
  2. (broadly) the Antarctic

Deriveds

antarcticite · Westarctica

Relateds

Arctic · ant- · Antarctican · Arctic Circle · Antarctic

Translations (209)

inh Антарктида (southernmost continent) · am አንታርክቲካ (southernmost continent) · pnt Ανταρκτικήν (southernmost continent) · nds-de Antarktika (southernmost continent) · io Antarktika (southernmost continent) · el Ανταρκτική (southernmost continent) · gl Antártida (southernmost continent) · zza Antarktika (southernmost continent) · szl Antarktyda (southernmost continent) · uz Antarktida (southernmost continent) · ti ኣንታርቲካ (southernmost continent) · bi Antarktik (southernmost continent) · ga Antartaice (southernmost continent) · si ඇන්ටාක්ටිකාව (southernmost continent) · pt Antártida (southernmost continent) · bua Антарктида (southernmost continent) · fi Etelänapamanner (southernmost continent) · li Antarctica (southernmost continent) · mi Te Tiri o Te Moana (southernmost continent) · et Lõunamanner (southernmost continent) · nb Antarktika (southernmost continent) · mt Antartika (southernmost continent) · bcl Antartika (southernmost continent) · ky Антарктида (southernmost continent) · ilo Antartika (southernmost continent) · be Антаркты́да (southernmost continent) · ko 남극대륙 (southernmost continent) · bar Antarktika (southernmost continent) · chr ᏧᏁᏍᏓᎸ (southernmost continent) · os Антарктидӕ (southernmost continent) · koi Антарктида (southernmost continent) · fa جنوبگان (southernmost continent) · kl Qalasersuaq Kujalleq (southernmost continent) · dz ཨེན་ཊཱག་ཊི་ཀ་ (southernmost continent) · tcy ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ (southernmost continent) · ig Antarctica (southernmost continent) · wa Antartike (southernmost continent) · lij Antartide (southernmost continent) · nv Shádiʼááhjí Honeezkʼazii (southernmost continent) · ba Антарктида (southernmost continent) · wo Dottub Bëj-saalum (southernmost continent) · frp Antartica (southernmost continent) · xmf ანტარქტიდა (southernmost continent) · stq Antarktikoa (southernmost continent) · id Antartika (southernmost continent) · haw ʻAneʻālika (southernmost continent) · pcd Intarctike (southernmost continent) · tt Антарктида (southernmost continent) · lb Antarktis (southernmost continent) · az Antarktida (southernmost continent) · ms Antartika (southernmost continent) · es Antártida (southernmost continent) · ext Antáltia (southernmost continent) · tk Antarktida (southernmost continent) · it Antartide (southernmost continent) · bo ལྷོ་མཐའི་གླིང (southernmost continent) · eu Antartika (southernmost continent) · nah Antartida (southernmost continent) · tl Antarctica (southernmost continent) · ta அந்தாட்டிக்கா (southernmost continent) · aii ܐܲܢܛܵܪܬܝܼܩܵܐ (southernmost continent) · kaa Antarktika (southernmost continent) · km អង់តាទិក (southernmost continent) · za Namzgigcouh (southernmost continent) · gmw-cfr Süüdpool (southernmost continent) · war Antartika (southernmost continent) · co Antartide (southernmost continent) · lv Antarktika (southernmost continent) · arz القطب الجنوبي (southernmost continent) · jv Antartika (southernmost continent) · krc Антарктида (southernmost continent) · fi Etelämanner (southernmost continent) · mwl Antártica (southernmost continent) · zu i-Antaktika (southernmost continent) · lmo Antartid (southernmost continent) · ro Antarctida (southernmost continent) · is Antarktíka (southernmost continent) · wal Anttarkitika (southernmost continent) · uk Антаркти́да (southernmost continent) · nn Antarktika (southernmost continent) · ts Antakthika (southernmost continent) · br Antarktika (southernmost continent) · ia Antarctica (southernmost continent) · ceb Antartika (southernmost continent) · sco Antarcticae (southernmost continent) · crh Antarktida (southernmost continent) · hu Antarktisz (southernmost continent) · kmr Antarktîka (southernmost continent) · nrf Antarctique (southernmost continent) · kbp Antarɩtiki (southernmost continent) · lez Антарктида (southernmost continent) · he אַנְטַרְקְטִיקָה (southernmost continent) · ur انٹارکٹکا (southernmost continent) · arz أنترتيكا (southernmost continent) · ast L'Antártida (southernmost continent) · sn Antarctica (southernmost continent) · ja 南極大陸 (southernmost continent) · my အန္တာတိက (southernmost continent) · te అంటార్కిటికా (southernmost continent) · ml അന്റാർട്ടിക്ക (southernmost continent) · so Antarktika (southernmost continent) · sl Antárktika (southernmost continent) · pms Antàrtide (southernmost continent) · es Antártica (southernmost continent) · jam Antaatika (southernmost continent) · kw Antarktika (southernmost continent) · mhr Антарктиде (southernmost continent) · hu Antarktika (southernmost continent) · cmn 南極洲 /南极洲 (southernmost continent) · csb Antarktida (southernmost continent) · hsb Antarktika (southernmost continent) · nap Antartide (southernmost continent) · lo ອັນຕາກຕິກ (southernmost continent) · eo Antarkto (southernmost continent) · rw Antarigitika (southernmost continent) · sm Anetatika (southernmost continent) · is Suðurskautslandið (southernmost continent) · rue Антарктіда (southernmost continent) · mk Анта́рктик (southernmost continent) · ce Антарктида (southernmost continent) · tk Antarktika (southernmost continent) · ar الْقُطْبُ الْجَنُوبِيّ (southernmost continent) · sa दक्षिणध्रुवीयमहाद्वीपः (southernmost continent) · de Antarktika (southernmost continent) · hi अंटार्कटिका (southernmost continent) · yi אַנטאַרקטיקאַ (southernmost continent) · sv Antarktis (southernmost continent) · min Antarktika (southernmost continent) · ta அண்டார்டிகா (southernmost continent) · tr Antarktika (southernmost continent) · mg Antartika (southernmost continent) · ar أَنْتَارْكِتِيكَا (southernmost continent) · is Suðurheimskautslandið (southernmost continent) · pt Antártica (southernmost continent) · or ଆଣ୍ଟର୍କଟିକା (southernmost continent) · sw Antaktika (southernmost continent) · vls Antarctica (southernmost continent) · et Antarktis (southernmost continent) · mi Te Kōpakatanga (ki te Tonga) (southernmost continent) · nl Antarctica (southernmost continent) · roa-tar Antartide (southernmost continent) · an Antarctida (southernmost continent) · af Antarktika (southernmost continent) · nso Antarctica (southernmost continent) · zea Antartica (southernmost continent) · ro Antarctica (southernmost continent) · ace Antartika (southernmost continent) · lv Antarktīda (southernmost continent) · bg Антаркти́да (southernmost continent) · kk Антарктида (southernmost continent) · id Antarktika (southernmost continent) · su Antartika (southernmost continent) · pih Antarktida (southernmost continent) · la Antarctica (southernmost continent) · bn আন্টার্কটিকা (southernmost continent) · vro Antarktis (southernmost continent) · tet Antártida (southernmost continent) · ca Antàrtida (southernmost continent) · da Antarktis (southernmost continent) · cs Antarktida (southernmost continent) · sat ᱟᱱᱴᱟᱨᱠᱚᱴᱤᱠᱟ (southernmost continent) · sc Antàrticu (southernmost continent) · mwl Antártida (southernmost continent) · cv Антаркти́да (southernmost continent) · gu ઍન્ટાર્કટિકા (southernmost continent) · vec Antartide (southernmost continent) · sk Antarktída (southernmost continent) · fi Antarktis (southernmost continent) · lad Antartika (southernmost continent) · dsb Antarktika (southernmost continent) · sgs Antarktėda (southernmost continent) · fy Antarktika (southernmost continent) · ka ანტარქტიდა (southernmost continent) · kn ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ (southernmost continent) · fo Antarktis (southernmost continent) · lt Antarktida (southernmost continent) · is Suðurskautsálfa (southernmost continent) · sh Антарктик (southernmost continent) · hy Անտարկտիդա (southernmost continent) · lkt Mílahaŋska (southernmost continent) · vi Châu Nam Cực (southernmost continent) · sh Antarktik (southernmost continent) · fr Antarctique (southernmost continent) · hy Անտարկտիկա (southernmost continent) · xal Антарктик (southernmost continent) · cy Antarctig (southernmost continent) · gv Antarctagh (southernmost continent) · frr Antarktikaa (southernmost continent) · pa ਅੰਟਾਰਕਟਿਕਾ (southernmost continent) · sah Антарктика (southernmost continent) · se Antárktis (southernmost continent) · ru Антаркти́да (southernmost continent) · mr अंटार्क्टिका (southernmost continent) · to ʻAnetātika (southernmost continent) · th แอนตาร์กติกา (southernmost continent) · scn Antàrtidi (southernmost continent) · vep Antarktid (southernmost continent) · pl Antarktyda (southernmost continent) · pap Antartica (southernmost continent) · tg Антарктида (southernmost continent) · gd Antartaig (southernmost continent) · fur Antartic (southernmost continent) · sq Antarktidë (southernmost continent) · oc Antartida (southernmost continent) · ht Antatik (southernmost continent) · olo Antarktidu (southernmost continent) · qu Antartika (southernmost continent) · mn Антарктид (southernmost continent) · nv Shádiʼááhjí kéyah yistinígíí (southernmost continent)

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