Antarctic Peninsula

American

noun

a peninsula in western Antarctica, south of South America.

Antarctic Peninsula British

noun

Former name (until 1964): Palmer Peninsula. the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the south

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Its larvae inhabit damp mats of moss and algae along the Antarctic Peninsula.

From Science Daily

They examined wildlife at 10 sites across the South Shetland Islands, the northern Weddell Sea, and the Antarctic Peninsula.

From Science Daily

A glacier on the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula has undergone the quickest ice loss documented in modern times, according to a major international study co-authored by Swansea University.

From Science Daily

The case began way back in 2002 with the extraordinary collapse of an ice shelf called Larsen B in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula.

From BBC

That is what an international team of particularly adventurous researchers did earlier this year in the remote Antarctic Peninsula, on a mission aiming to reveal centuries of scientific secrets about the Southern Ocean.

From BBC

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