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This moment variation of the 1990 Library magazine "Best Reference" publication, 4 years within the compiling and writing, is an exhaustive A-Z direct-entry encyclopedia of Antarctica. It doubles the 1st edition's entries to 30,000, protecting geographical beneficial properties, historic occasions, explorers, expeditions, airplanes, ships, scientists, medical stations, travel operators, medical phrases, birds, animals, bugs, flowers, goods of common curiosity and lots more and plenty extra. "Antarctica" is outlined as all land and water south of 60°S. details for geographical good points is drawn basically from nationwide gazetteers, either present and outdated, and isn't constrained to ­English-­language resources. large cross-referencing simplifies the continent's usually bewildering nomenclature--geographical positive aspects' names, for instance, may well differ extensively from one nationwide gazetteer to the subsequent, and are extra advanced via having been named and renamed a number of occasions, and in lots of languages, over the years. All linguistic adaptations of placenames are integrated and cross-referenced.

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