Talk:Antarctica
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Australian stations
Felt the need to make the names of the Aussie bases less ambiguous. They were all named after explorers, so they are naturally ambiguous from day one. Davis already has a disambiguation pages due to the US place names. - Gaz 12:38 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)
- No problem, Gaz. You and I will disagree about some place names, no doubt, but these (I think) are clearly better for your change. Tannin
...and I am (after some research) about to rename them again. Seems the word "station" is appropriate in their names. See AAD home page (http://www.aad.gov.au/). As a generality, I much prefer unambiguous names throughout. ie I would love to move [[Paris]] to [[Paris, France]]. I'm just not spoiling for a fight right now. (one day though...) - Gaz 13:30 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)
Birth
The opening paragraph of this article claims that only one person has been born in Antarctica, but the "Demographics of Antarctica" article says there have been three. What do you think?
- (William M. Connolley 16:38, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)) I don't like this piece of info being there, so prompted by your comment above I've removed it. It was wrong (the demog article lists names so is presumably accurate). And that kind of info belongs in demog anyway. But worse: the births-in-antarctica stuff are distasteful (and also completely pointless) political stunts designed to bolster political claims. So its best not over-publicised.
Copyrighted map?
The map appears to be from National Geographic magazine. I'm pretty sure that magazine has a copyright policy. Can someone verify or refute this? (And remove the map if necessary.) --Eitheladar 06:20, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Outposts of Antarctica
This is bad grammar. An outpost of something is a small area offset from the larger, named area. Guam is an outpost of the United States. Any outposts of Antarctica would have to be established elsewhere by Antarctic citizens. I'm thinking of moving the category to Outposts in Antarctica. --Yath 07:07, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Little America
I just created a page for this, but don't really know whether it's already listed on Antarctica under another name... if somebody can help... [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 10:32, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Time Zone
I wonder if someone was to ask you "May I have the time, please?" What would you say? Maybe this is a stupid question but, what's the time zone for Antartica? How's time being calcualted down there? --Garlics82 19:52, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
- So far as the Australian stations go:
- Macquarie Island works off Tasmanian time, AEST (GMT+10) or AEDT (GMT+11).
- Casey is 2 hours behind - (GMT+8)
- Davis is 3 hours behind - (GMT+7)
- Mawson is 4 hours behind - (GMT+6)
- See [1] (http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=6213). I'll integrate this into the article. -- Chuq 01:12, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Officially, it's GMT, although McMurdo Station uses Christchurch, NZ time. -- Dave Cohoe 06:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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I would like to request a Tourism of Antarctica article, but I don't know where I would. I'll post this on the Economy of Antarctica talk page too. Theaterfreak64 00:40, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
Missing Picture
At some point I saw a picture on Wikipedia (or maybe the Commons) of a mountain in Antarctica, and a field of bluish ice in the forground. The caption explained somethign about how the ice was blue from layers melting and refreezing, I believe. I have searched like CRAZY but I can't find the image again. Anyone know what I'm talking about? --Brian Z 04:57, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Sounds like Image:Lake_Fryxell.jpg I reckon. Worldtraveller 00:29, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- (William M. Connolley 09:23, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)) I think you're talking about a "blue ice area" [2] (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/jog/2001/00000047/00000157/art00017). I thought it was formed when the overlying snow blows off (not by melting), but the ref I've just found says both occur.
Area?
This article does not mention the size of Antarctica (surface area, kmē). — Timwi 19:08, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
External Links
Does the South Shetland page need its own Educative Links section? How is this different than the other external links, which appear to be educational as well? -- Dave C. 19:56, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Can I claim Antartica?
So, is it possible for two young navigators to claim the slice between 90 degrees and 150?
- Can you donate some of your pictures of Antarctica to WP? We need more pictures of ice. Oh, and some snow too. (SEWilco 15:36, 29 May 2005 (UTC))