(n) an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13, 000 feet deep, Syn.Antarctic continent
(n) a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific, Syn.Palmer Peninsula
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
a. [ OE. antartik, OF. antartique, F. antarctique, L. antarcticus, fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'anti` + 'a`rktos bear. See Arctic. ] Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28′. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
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