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seasonal variation in amounts. Between about 68° S and 63° S on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and along its northeast coast, precipitation is 35 cm (14 in) or less with occasional rain. Along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula south of 63° S, precipitation ranges from 10 to 15 cm (3.9 to 5.9 in). In comparison, the
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occurred about 10,000 years ago. The deglaciation of some locations within the Antarctic Peninsula continued until 4,000 to 3,000 years ago. Within the Antarctic Peninsula, an interglacial climatic optimum occurred about 3,000 to 5,000 years ago. After the climate optimum, a distinct climate cooling, which lasted until historic times, occurred.
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Paleogene and Early Eocene marine sediments that outcrop on Seymour Island contain plant-rich horizons. The fossil plants are dominated by permineralized branches of conifers and compressions of angiosperm leaves, and are found within carbonate concretions. These Seymour Island region fossils date to
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The Antarctic Peninsula is a part of the world that is experiencing extraordinary warming. Each decade for the last five, average temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen by 0.5 °C (0.90 °F). Ice mass loss on the peninsula occurred at a rate of 60 billion tons / year in 2006,
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with leaf morphotypes that are similar to those of living families such as Sterculiaceae, Lauraceae, Winteraceae, Cunoniaceae, and Myrtaceae. They indicate that the emergent parts of the volcanic island arc, the eroded roots of which now form the central part of the Antarctic Peninsula, were covered
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and other marine sediments. As reflected in the plant fossils, paleosols, and climate models, the climate was warm, humid, and seasonally dry. According to climate models, the summers were dry and winters were wet. The rivers were perennial and subject to intermittent flooding as the result of heavy
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These fossil plants are indicative of tropical and subtropical forest at high paleolatitudes during the Middle and Late Cretaceous, which grew in climates without extended periods of below freezing winter temperatures and with adequate moisture for growth. The Cretaceous strata of James Ross Island
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A rich record of fossil leaves, wood, pollen, and flowers demonstrates that flowering plants thrived in subtropical climates within the volcanic island arcs that occupied the Antarctic Peninsula region during the Cretaceous and very early Paleogene periods. The analysis of fossil leaves and flowers
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is generally much colder, with mean temperatures exceeding 0 °C (32 °F) for at most one month of summer, and winter mean temperatures ranging from −5 to −25 °C (23 to −13 °F). The colder temperatures of the southeast, Weddell Sea side, of the Antarctic Peninsula are reflected in
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Francis, J. E.; Ashworth, A.; Cantrill, D. J.; Crame, J. A.; Howe, J.; Stephens, R.; Tosolini, A.-M.; Thorn, V. (2008). "100 Million Years of Antarctic Climate Evolution: Evidence from Fossil Plants". In Cooper, A. K.; Barrett, P. J.; Stagg, H.; Storey, B.; Stump, E.; Wise, W.; et al. (eds.).
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Analysis of paleontologic, stratigraphic, and sedimentologic data acquired from the study of drill core and seismic acquired during the Shallow Drilling on the Antarctic Continental Shelf (SHALDRIL) and other projects and from fossil collections from and rock outcrops within Alexander, James Ross,
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Precipitation varies greatly within the Antarctic Peninsula. From the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula to 68° S, precipitation averages 35–50 cm (14–20 in) per year. A good portion of this precipitation falls as rain during the summer, on two-thirds of the days of the year, and with little
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climate was established in the region. It initially started about 18,000 to 14,000 years ago with retreat of the ice sheet from the Pacific outer continental shelf and the continental margin within the Weddell Sea. Within the Weddell Sea, the transition from grounded ice to a floating ice shelf
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During the Cenozoic climatic cooling, the Antarctic Peninsula was the last region of Antarctica to have been fully glaciated according to current research. As a result, this region was probably the last refugium for plants and animals that had inhabited Antarctica after it separated from the
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Detailed studies of the paleontology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy of glacial and nonglacial deposits within the Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Weddell Sea and its Pacific continental shelf have found that it has become progressively glaciated as the climate of Antarctica
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and prehistoric ice sheet fluctuation of it for over the last 100 million years. This research shows the dramatic changes in climate, which have occurred within this region after it reached its approximate position within the Antarctic Circle during the
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After the peak warmth of the Cretaceous thermal maximum the climate, both regionally and globally, appears to have cooled as seen in the Antarctic fossil wood record. Later, warm high-latitude climates returned to the Antarctic Peninsula region during the
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period, the size of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has fluctuated in response to glacial–interglacial cycles. During glacial epochs, this ice sheet was significantly thicker than it is currently and extended to the edge of the continental shelves. During
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Anderson, J. B.; Warny, S.; Askin, R. A.; Wellner, J. S.; Bohaty, S. M.; Kirshner, A. E.; Livsey, D. N.; Simms, A. R.; Smith, Tyler R.; Ehrmann, W.; Lawverh, L. A.; Barbeaui, D.; Wise, S. W.; Kulhanek, D. K.; Weaver, F. M.; Majewski, W. (2012).
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when the transition from a temperate, alpine glaciation to a dynamic ice sheet occurred. Eventually, the Antarctic Peninsula was overridden by an ice sheet, which has persisted without any interruption to this day, in the early Pliocene, about
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indicates that semitropical woodlands, which were composed of ancestors of plants that live in the tropics today, thrived within this region during a global thermal maximum with summer temperatures that averaged 20 °C (68 °F).
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as reflected in fossil plants. Abundant plant and marine fossils from Paleogene marine sediments that outcrop on Seymour Island indicate the presence of cool and moist, high-latitudes environment during the early Eocene.
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concentrations. Initially, during the Eocene, this climate cooling resulted in a decrease in diversity of the angiosperm-dominated vegetation that inhabited the northern Antarctic Peninsula. During the Oligocene, about
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The oldest fossil plants come from the middle Cretaceous (Albian) Fossil Bluff Group, which outcrop along the edge of Alexander Island. These fossils reveal that at this time the forests consisted of large
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This research found that vegetation within the Antarctic Peninsula changed in response to a progressive climatic cooling that started with the initiation of mountain glaciation in the latest Eocene, about
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Johnson, J. S.; Bentley, M. J.; Roberts, S. J.; Binnie, S. A.; Freeman, S. P. H. T. (2011). "Holocene deglacial history of the northeast Antarctic Peninsula — A review and new chronological constraints".
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The 1950s saw a marked increase in the number of research bases as Britain, Chile and Argentina competed to make claims over the same area. Meteorology and geology were the primary research subjects.
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Hayes, P. A.; Francis, J. E.; Cantrill, D. J. (2006). "Palaeoclimate of Late Cretaceous Angiosperm leaf floras, James Ross Island, Antarctic". In Francis, J. E.; Pirrie, D.; Crame, J. A. (eds.).
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with the greatest change occurring in the northern tip of the peninsula. Seven ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have retreated or disintegrated in the last two decades. Research by the
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have been the subject of intensive geologic, paleontologic, and paleoclimatic research by interdisciplinary and multinational groups over the last several decades. The combined study of the
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islands have precipitation of 100–200 cm (39–79 in) per year and the dry interior of Antarctica is a virtual desert with only 10 cm (3.9 in) precipitation per year.
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Falcon-Lang, H. J.; Cantrill, D. J.; Nichols, G. J. (2001). "Biodiversity and terrestrial ecology of a mid-Cretaceous, high-latitude floodplain, Alexander Island, Antarctica".
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in the lower parts of the glaciers. Professor David Vaughan has described the disintegration of the Wilkins Ice Shelf as the latest evidence of rapid warming in the area. The
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or the British name "Graham Land" for this geographic feature. This dispute was resolved by making Graham Land the part of the Antarctic Peninsula northward of a line between
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Ducklow, Hugh W; Baker, Karen; Martinson, Douglas G; Quetin, Langdon B; Ross, Robin M; Smith, Raymond C; Stammerjohn, Sharon E; Vernet, Maria; Fraser, William (2007-01-29).
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on the continent can be found there, or on the many nearby islands, and it is the part of Antarctica most often visited by tour vessels and yachts. Occupied bases include
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Heroy, D. C.; Anderson, J. B. (2005). "Ice-sheet extent of the Antarctic Peninsula region during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) — insights from glacial geomorphology".
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is the world's southernmost colony of gentoo penguins. The exposed rocks on the island is one of many locations on the peninsula that provides a good habitat for
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has yielded a record of the changes in terrestrial vegetation that occurred within the Antarctic Peninsula over the course of the past 37 million years.
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The most likely first sighting of the Antarctic Peninsula, and therefore also of the whole Antarctic mainland, was on 27 January 1820 by an expedition of the
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epochs, the West Antarctica Ice Sheet was thinner than during glacial epochs and its margins lay significantly inland of the continental margins.
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Ferrigno, J. G.; Cook, A. J.; Mathie, A. M.; Williams, R. S. Jr.; Swithinbank, C.; Foley, K. M.; Fox, A. J.; Thomson, J. W.; Sievers, J. (2009).
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has revealed that every ice front on the southern half of the peninsula experienced a retreat between 1947 and 2009. According to a study by the
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dramatically and progressively cooled during the last 37 million years. This progressive cooling was contemporaneous with a reduction in
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Salgado, L.; Gasparini, Z. (2006). "Reappraisal of an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island (Antarctica)".
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The peninsula is very mountainous, its highest peaks rising to about 2,800 m (9,200 ft). Notable peaks on the peninsula include
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Sweet, Stephen T.; Kennicutt, Mahlon C.; Klein, Andrew G. (2015-02-20). "The Grounding of theBahía Paraíso, Arthur Harbor, Antarctica".
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Ingolfsson, O.; Hjort, C.; Humlum, O. (2003). "Glacial and Climate History of the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum".
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concentrations. During this climatic cooling, the Antarctic Peninsula was probably the last region of Antarctica to have been fully
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adapted to this harsh environment, with lichens preferring the wetter areas of the rocky landscape. The most common lichens are
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and are dominated by leaves, cone scales, and leafy branches of Araucarian conifers, very similar in all respects to living
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as Antarctica separated from South America. The South Shetland Island separated from Graham Land about 4 Ma as a volcanic
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connecting the two. This is the basis for the position advanced by Chile and Argentina for their territorial claims. The
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Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
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The marine ecosystem around the western continental shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has been subjected to rapid
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The Antarctic Peninsula is currently dotted with numerous research stations, and nations have made multiple claims of
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are both just off the east coast. A number of smaller peninsulas extend from the main Antarctic Peninsula, including
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Other portions of the peninsula are named by and after the various expeditions that discovered them, including the
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the part southward of that line, which is roughly 69° S. Palmer Land is named for the United States seal hunter
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climates with adequate moisture for growth and without extended periods of below freezing winter temperatures.
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Livingstone, S. J.; Cofaigh, C. O.; Stokes, C. R.; Hillenbrand, C.-D.; Vieli, A.; Jamieson, S. S. R. (2011).
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Schofield, O.; Ducklow, H. W.; Martinson, D. G.; Meredith, M. P.; Moline, M. A.; Fraser, W. R. (2010-06-18).
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The Antarctic Peninsula is 522,000 square kilometres (202,000 sq mi) in area and 80% ice-covered.
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There are various volcanoes in the islands around the Antarctic Peninsula. This volcanism is related to
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Because of issues concerning global climate change, the Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent parts of the
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which is native to many sub-Antarctic islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and southern South America.
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and is the extreme northeast portion of the peninsula. The next confirmed sighting was in 1832 by
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after being hunted towards extinction, has returned to the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Thomson, Michael; Swithinbank, Charles (1 August 1985). "The prospects for Antarctic Minerals".
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associated with this subduction is evident in the Scotia Metamorphic Complex, which outcrops on
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Although this very remote part of the world has never been inhabited and is protected by the
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species found on the peninsula, especially near the tip and surrounding islands, include the
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fish that lives in sub-zero water temperatures around the peninsula. Vocalizations of the
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and nonglacial deposits of the Antarctic Peninsula has allowed the reconstruction of the
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is the island arc system that links the mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula to those of
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Since the peninsula has the mildest climate in Antarctica, the highest concentration of
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which sank not far from the peninsula. All crew were rescued by an Argentine ship. The
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of the Antarctic Peninsula largely occurred between 18,000 and 6,000 years ago as an
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on the west coast of the peninsula. Most emperor penguins breed in East Antarctica.
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The animals of Antarctica live on food they find in the sea—not on land—and include
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and subsequent 170,000 US gal (640,000 L; 140,000 imp gal)
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in 1964 resolved a long-standing difference over the use of the United States' name
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Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Palmer Land Area, Antarctica: 1947–2009
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are found in the seas surrounding the peninsula and the rest of the continent. The
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Nearly cloud-free view of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula during spring
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were deliberately unreliable, to protect any new sealing grounds from competition.
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aircraft, and concluded that Graham Land was not an archipelago but a peninsula.
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Islands along the peninsula are mostly ice-covered and connected to the land by
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create a funneling effect, which channels the winds into the relatively narrow
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Biodiversity at Ardley Island, South Shetland archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula
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is found in the middle of the peninsula. Other geographical features include
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The first European to land on the continent is also disputed. A 19th-century
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can be heard emanating from the waters surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Warm high-latitude climates reached a peak during the mid-Late Cretaceous
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The coasts of the peninsula have the mildest climate in Antarctica and
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Account of a tourist visit to the Antarctic Peninsula by Roderick Eime
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Cretaceous-Tertiary High Latitude Palaeoenvironments, James Ross Basin
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New satellite imagery reveals new highest Antarctic Peninsula Mountain
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and West Antarctica found on the peninsula include: southern fulmar (
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is an active volcano at the southern end of this rift zone. Notable
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as the climate continued to cool. By middle Miocene, 16–11.6 
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at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. Also located here are the
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Geology of Graham Land, in Antarctic Peninsula: A Visitor's Guide
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the persistence of ice shelves that cling to the eastern side.
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has been unable to determine the greatest potential effect on
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deposits. Volcanism along western Graham Land dates from the
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spends most of its life in the same waters feeding on krill.
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Off the coast of the Peninsula are numerous islands. Here is
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Because the Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches north of the
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The Antarctic Peninsula is part of the larger peninsula of
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between 1934 and 1937 carried out aerial surveys using a
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Kraus, Stefan; Kurbatov, Andrei; Yates, Martin (2013).
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Leat, Philip; Francis, Jane (2019). Fox, Adrian (ed.).
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species. Antarctica's two flowering plant species, the
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that form the Fossil Bluff Group accumulated within a
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Plant fossils found within the Late Cretaceous ( 2187:"British Research Stations and Refuges - History" 1755:by either warm temperate or subtropical forests. 1334:at the margin of an ice-covered continent during 226:on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, 2001 2547: 2545: 2543: 2541: 2515: 2513: 2511: 2509: 2618: 2616: 2614: 2612: 2610: 2608: 2606: 2604: 2602: 2560:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 656:, along with Clarence and Smith Islands of the 518:occurred near the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989. 3055:"Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread" 1926: 1924: 1922: 1920: 1918: 1916: 1871:Argentina–Chile relations § Border issues 640:. This line of volcanoes are associated with 625:. These rocks in western Graham Land include 3742: 3193: 1177:, provides a detailed record, which includes 499:, the first person to be born in Antarctica. 8: 2451: 2449: 2447: 2445: 2443: 2441: 2286:Handbook of Oil Spill Science and Technology 2159:The Australian Geographic book of Antarctica 160:community composition as well as changes in 3081: 3079: 3020: 3018: 2742:Journal of the Geological Society of London 2485: 2483: 2481: 2479: 2477: 2460:. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2358:"Operation IceBridge Returns to Antarctica" 118:) and a point on the mainland south of the 99:Location of the Antarctic Peninsula within 3749: 3735: 3727: 3277: 3200: 3186: 3178: 2458:Natural History of The Antarctic Peninsula 942:, at 63°13′S. Near the tip at Hope Bay is 826:The landscape of the peninsula is typical 2935:"Satellites Shed Light On Global Warming" 2582: 2572: 2524:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2404: 2000: 1842: 1837: 1833: 1813: 1804: 1774: 1610:), the scavenging southern giant petrel ( 1368:Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1286: 1278: 1274: 3109: 3107: 3105: 1390:, once reduced to a small population on 507:The grounding of the Argentine ship the 465:Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme 27:Peninsula located in northern Antarctica 2898: 2896: 1912: 1374:that glaciers in the region may cause. 986:along the west coast of the peninsula. 2977:"Antarctic Heating and Cooling Trends" 2837:(1–2) (published 2011-10-25): 90–128. 2704:Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 2664:Geological Society of America Bulletin 2152: 2150: 1828:) and conifer-dominated woodlands and 728:Satellite image of Antarctic Peninsula 276:Three days later, on 30 January 1820, 3116:Antarctic Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide 342:Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names 7: 3706: 3173:89 photos of the Antarctic Peninsula 1935:. New York, NY: McFarland & Co. 1628:), the small Wilson's storm-petrel ( 998:are all on the west coast as well. 858:lies to the east of the peninsula. 477:Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station 1881:Geology of the Antarctic Peninsula 528:Geology of the Antarctic Peninsula 346:UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 267:Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen 25: 2958:. TerraDaily.com. 14 January 2008 2424:. Sydney: ABC Books. p. 40. 2259:"Struggling to Protect 'The Ice'" 2242:"The world's frozen clean room". 954:is called the Trinity Peninsula. 449:by a British military operation, 3705: 3696: 3695: 3455: 3090:(2011). Cleveland, C. J. (ed.). 2494:(2009). Cleveland, C. J. (ed.). 2257:Smith, James F. (5 April 1990). 1855: 532:Antarctica was once part of the 72:in Argentina, and originally as 3065:from the original on 2008-08-08 3036:from the original on 2008-07-05 2937:. TerraDaily.com. 29 April 2007 2916:from the original on 2008-06-17 2887:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.011 2843:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.10.003 2223:Simon Romero (6 January 2016). 1646:), the large south polar skua ( 1457:is an example of this habitat. 1356:United States Geological Survey 3092:"Marielandia Antarctic tundra" 2824:"Antarctic palaeo-ice streams" 2422:Antarctica: Heart of the World 1185:plants, of Middle Cretaceous ( 1113:Retreat of glaciers since 1850 1109:Antarctica cooling controversy 893:. The Antarctic Peninsula and 331:British Graham Land expedition 76:in the United Kingdom and the 1: 1956:Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet 1891:Instituto Antártico Argentino 1820:were replaced by a mosaic of 1189:) terrestrial climates. The 796:, with a submarine spine or 720:Geographic map of Antarctica 574:Trinity Peninsula Group are 438:at the wharf of the British 320:Swedish Antarctic Expedition 4103:Chilean Antarctic Territory 4098:British Antarctic Territory 3086:Hogan, C. M.; Draggan, S.; 2981:Goddard Space Flight Center 273:covered by small hillocks. 18:Western Antarctic Peninsula 4134: 2867:Quaternary Science Reviews 2294:10.1002/9781118989982.ch23 2189:. British Antarctic Survey 1933:Antarctic: An Encyclopedia 1795:King George, Seymour, and 1670:). The imperial shag is a 1219:Cretaceous Thermal Maximum 1106: 1044: 525: 250: 126:, the southernmost tip of 3691: 3453: 1725:Paleoflora and paleofauna 1001:On the east coast is the 257:Voyage of the James Caird 3876:Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf 3365:Antarctic/Southern Ocean 2522:Antarctic Marine Geology 2520:Anderson, J. B. (1999). 2366:. NASA. October 15, 2011 2345:British Antarctic Survey 1701:Threats and preservation 1360:British Antarctic Survey 1173:, which outcrops within 1015:Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula 966:is found here also. 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Western Antarctic Peninsula
69°30′S 65°00′W / 69.500°S 65.000°W / -69.500; -65.000
Antarctica


Antarctica
West Antarctica
Cape Adams
Weddell Sea
Eklund Islands
Tierra del Fuego
South America
Drake Passage
climate change
heat transport
Adélie penguins
phytoplankton
zooplankton
krill
sovereignty
Argentina
Chile
United Kingdom
Antarctic Treaty System
Australia
France
New Zealand
Norway

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