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The LRC CyberLibrary's Antarctica Online

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Antarctic & Arctic: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Where is Antarctica?

antarctica

Map of the southern (bottom) part of the earth.

Antarctica from afar . . .

See Antarctica from SPACE

Tell me more about Antarctica . . . like the people & places . . .

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PRINTABLE OUTLINE MAP OF ANTARCTICA

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LRC PRINT MATERIAL RESOURCE:
Look at the atlases in the LRC Reference section to
see other views of Antarctica.

What is Antarctica?

A dictionary definition is shown below:

Ant·arc·ti·ca (ānt-ärk'tĭ-kə, -är'tĭ-)
A continent lying chiefly within the Antarctic Circle and asymmetrically centered on the South Pole. Some 95 percent of Antarctica is covered by an icecap averaging 1.6 km (1 mi) in thickness. The region was first explored in the early 1800s, and although there are no permanent settlements, many countries have made territorial claims. The Antarctic Treaty of 1959, signed by 12 nations, prohibited military operations on the continent and provided for the interchange of scientific data. MLA SAMPLE CITATION FOR THIS EXCERPT

LRC PRINT MATERIAL RESOURCE:
Look at several different dictionaries in the LRC Reference section
and see if the definitions are slightly different in each dictionary.

TIME FOR EXPLORING!

CLICK HERE TO EXPLORE Antarctica and "see the coldest continent on Earth alive in greater detail than ever before through this virtually cloudless, seamless, and high resolution satellite view of Antarctica".

HOW DO I GET BACK HERE?

Web sites will open in a new window and the CyberLibrary web page will stay open underneath the pages you are viewing. To return here, simply close the window you're browsing.

A THINKING MOMENT:
A Dewey Challenge . . . besides the Reference section, where would
books about Antarctica be found in the LRC? What Dewey
Decimal classification would this type of book be in? How / where
would you search for a book in the LRC about the Antarctic?
HINT: What would you type into OPAC?

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Antarctica Map Graphic source: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/an.htm

Here's what the citation (MLA style) would look like for the dictionary entry above:

"antarctica." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 02 Jan. 2008. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/antarctica>.

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