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Flora Antarctica, the Glossary

The Flora Antarctica, or formally and correctly The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, is a description of the many plants discovered on the Ross expedition, which visited islands off the coast of the Antarctic continent, with a summary of the expedition itself, written by the British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker and published in parts between 1844 and 1859 by Reeve Brothers in London.^[1]

Achille Richard

Achille Richard was a French botanist, botanical illustrator and physician (27 April 1794 in Paris – 5 October 1852).

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Altitude

Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object.

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American Journal of Science

The American Journal of Science (AJS) is the United States of America's longest-running scientific journal, having been published continuously since its conception in 1818 by Professor Benjamin Silliman, who edited and financed it himself.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Asa Gray

Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.

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Asteraceae

Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales.

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Auckland Islands

The Auckland Islands (Māori: Motu Maha "Many islands" or Maungahuka "Snowy mountains") are an archipelago of New Zealand, lying south of the South Island.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.

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Australian National Botanic Gardens

The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a heritage-listed botanical garden located in, Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

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Bay of Islands

The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Botany of Fuegia, the Falklands, Kerguelen's Land, Etc.

The Botany of Fuegia, the Falklands, Kerguelen's Land, Etc. is a description of the plants discovered in these islands during the Ross expedition written by Joseph Dalton Hooker and published by Reeve Brothers in London between 1845 and 1847. Flora Antarctica and Botany of Fuegia, the Falklands, Kerguelen's Land, Etc. are Florae (publication).

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Botany of Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell's Island

The Botany of Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell's Island is a description of the plants discovered in those islands during the Ross expedition written by Joseph Dalton Hooker and published by Reeve Brothers in London between 1844 and 1845. Flora Antarctica and Botany of Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell's Island are books about Antarctica and Florae (publication).

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Campbell Islands

The Campbell Islands (or Campbell Island Group) are a group of subantarctic islands, belonging to New Zealand.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Chatham Dockyard

Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.

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Christmas Island

The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name.

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Chromolithography

Chromolithography is a method for making multi-colour prints.

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Cockburn Island (Antarctica)

Cockburn Island is an oval island long, consisting of a high plateau with steep slopes surmounted on the northwest side by a pyramidal peak high, lying in the north-east entrance to Admiralty Sound, south of the north-east end of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Coprosma

Coprosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.

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Crozet Islands

The Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet; or, officially, Archipel Crozet) are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean.

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Cryptogam

A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) or a plant-like organism that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds.

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Curtis's Botanical Magazine

The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, is an illustrated publication which began in 1787.

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Daniel Solander

Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Darwinism

Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

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Deschampsia antarctica

Deschampsia antarctica, the Antarctic hair grass, is one of two flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort).

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Dicotyledon

The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided.

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Dracophyllum

Dracophyllum is a genus of plants belonging to the family Ericaceae, formerly Epacridaceae.

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Drift ice

Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011.

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Durvillaea

Durvillaea is a genus of large brown algae in the monotypic family Durvillaeaceae.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Flora Novae-Zelandiae

The Flora Novae-Zelandiae is a description of the plants discovered in New Zealand during the Ross expedition written by Joseph Dalton Hooker and published by Reeve Brothers in London between 1853 and 1855. Flora Antarctica and Flora Novae-Zelandiae are Florae (publication).

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Flora Tasmaniae

The Flora Tasmaniae is a description of the plants discovered in Tasmania during the Ross expedition written by Joseph Dalton Hooker and published by Reeve Brothers in London between 1855 and 1860. Flora Antarctica and Flora Tasmaniae are Florae (publication).

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Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung

Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung (Brothers Borntraeger Publishing House) is a scientific publishing company covering the fields of botany, Earth science, and environmental science.

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Genetic variability

Genetic variability is either the presence of, or the generation of, genetic differences.

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Hermite Islands

The Hermite Islands are the islands Hermite, Herschel, Deceit and Hornos as well as the islets Maxwell, Jerdán, Arrecife, Chanticleer, Hall, Deceit (islet), and Hasse at almost the southernmost end of South America.

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HMS Erebus (1826)

HMS Erebus was a constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826.

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HMS Nassau (1866)

HMS Nassau was a wooden-hulled gun vessel of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Terror (1813)

HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813.

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Ibis (journal)

Ibis (formerly The Ibis), subtitled the International Journal of Avian Science, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union.

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James Clark Ross

Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of the Arctic, participating in two expeditions led by his uncle John Ross, and four led by William Edward Parry, and, in particular, for his own Antarctic expedition from 1839 to 1843.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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James Eights

James Eights (1798–1882) was an American physician, scientist, and artist.

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Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.

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Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica.

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Kerguelen Islands

The Kerguelen Islands (or; in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel Kerguelen), also known as the Desolation Islands (Îles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged in the southern Indian Ocean.

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Land bridge

In biogeography, a land bridge is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonize new lands.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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Lecanora

Lecanora is a genus of lichen commonly called rim lichens.

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Lichen

A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.

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Lithography

Lithography is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water.

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Lovell Augustus Reeve

Lovell Augustus Reeve (19 April 1814 – 18 November 1865) was an English conchologist and publisher.

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Macrocystis

Macrocystis is a monospecific genus of kelp (large brown algae) with all species now synonymous with Macrocystis pyrifera.

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Madeira

Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Metrosideros umbellata

Metrosideros umbellata, the southern rātā, is a tree endemic to New Zealand.

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Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

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Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley), the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth.

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Mount Terror (Antarctica)

Mount Terror is an extinct volcano about high on Ross Island, Antarctica, about eastward of Mount Erebus.

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Natural selection

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.

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New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Non-vascular plant

Non-vascular plants are plants without a vascular system consisting of xylem and phloem.

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Nothofagus antarctica

Nothofagus antarctica (Antarctic beech; in Spanish Ñire or Ñirre) is a deciduous tree or shrub native to southern Chile and Argentina from about 36°S to Tierra del Fuego (56° S), where it grows mainly in the diminishing temperate rainforest.

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Nothofagus betuloides

Nothofagus betuloides, Magellan's beech or guindo, is a tree native to southern Patagonia.

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Oceanography

Oceanography, also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean.

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Panax

The Panax (ginseng) genus belongs to the Araliaceae (ivy) family.

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Parmelia (fungus)

Parmelia is a genus of medium to large foliose (leafy) lichens.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.

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Phylogeography

Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the past to present geographic distributions of genealogical lineages.

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Prince Edward Islands

The Prince Edward Islands are two small uninhabited islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean that are administered by South Africa.

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Ranunculaceae

Ranunculaceae (buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide.

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River Derwent (Tasmania)

The River Derwent, also known as timtumili minanya in palawa kani, is a significant river and tidal estuary in Tasmania, Australia.

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Robert Oliver Cunningham

Robert Oliver Cunningham (27 March 1841 – 1918) was a Scottish naturalist.

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Ronald Campbell Gunn

Ronald Campbell Gunn, FRS, (4 April 1808 – 13 March 1881) was a Cape Colony-born Tasmanian botanist and politician.

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Ross expedition

The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships, HMS ''Erebus'' and HMS ''Terror''. Flora Antarctica and Ross expedition are Flora of the Antarctic.

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Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family.

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Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago

The Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago (Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo) is a group of 15 small islets and rocks in the central equatorial Atlantic Ocean.

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Seed plant

A seed plant or spermatophyte, also known as a phanerogam (taxon Phanerogamae) or a phaenogam (taxon Phaenogamae), is any plant that produces seeds.

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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Antarctica

Also known as The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror.

, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Kerguelen Islands, Land bridge, Latitude, Lecanora, Lichen, Lithography, Lovell Augustus Reeve, Macrocystis, Madeira, Melbourne University Publishing, Metrosideros umbellata, Monocotyledon, Mount Erebus, Mount Terror (Antarctica), Natural selection, New York Botanical Garden, New Zealand, Non-vascular plant, Nothofagus antarctica, Nothofagus betuloides, Oceanography, Panax, Parmelia (fungus), Patagonia, Phylogeography, Prince Edward Islands, Ranunculaceae, River Derwent (Tasmania), Robert Oliver Cunningham, Ronald Campbell Gunn, Ross expedition, Ross Ice Shelf, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Rubiaceae, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Seed plant, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Shetland Islands, Springer Science+Business Media, Stereocaulon ramulosum, Sydney, Tasmania, Tenerife, Tierra del Fuego, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunha, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago Press, University of Tasmania, Veronica sect. Hebe, Victoria Land, Victorian Web, Walter Hood Fitch, Weinheim, William Archer (naturalist), William Jackson Hooker.

Flora Antarctica, the Glossary

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See also

Books about Antarctica

Flora of the Antarctic

References