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Amery Ice Shelf
Antarctic Circle
Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Treaty (60°S)
Antarctica
Equator
Fimbul Ice Shelf
Larsen Ice Shelf
New Zealand
Patagonia
Polar Front
Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
Ronne Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
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Shackleton Ice Shelf
Siple Dome
South America
Tropic of Capricorn
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Antarctic Circle
accumulation
cryosphere
glacier
ice core
ice sheet
ice shelf
megadunes
Polar Front
Prime Meridian
sea ice
South Pole, Geographic
South Pole, Geomagnetic
South Pole, Magnetic
South Pole of Cold
South Pole of Inaccessibility
sea ice concentration
sea ice extent
seasonal snow
snow
snow extent
snow water equivalent
Tropic of Capricorn
The development of this map server application was supported by NASA's
Earth Observing System (EOS ) Program under contract NAS5-03099. Author: John Maurer.
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Antarctic Circle
Antarctic elevation contours
Antarctic ice cores
Antarctic megadunes
Antarctic Polar Front
Antarctic research stations
Antarctic territorial claims
cities
country borders
country labels
Equator
geographic features, ice
geographic features, land
geographic features, sea
International Date Line
latitude/longitude grid
Prime Meridian
South Pole, Geographic
South Pole, Geomagnetic
South Pole, Magnetic
South Pole of Cold
South Pole of Inaccessibility
Tropic of Capricorn
x/y grid (in meters)
Antarctica basemaps: (What is an ice sheet? )
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bedrock elevation
satellite image
snow accumulation
surface elevation
Glacier basemaps: (What is a glacier? )
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glaciers
glacier outlines
Satellite imagery:
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