Antarctica Political Map

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Antarctica is the southernmost continent on earth, which is located within the Antarctic Circle. Antarctica political map highlights the major political divisions and sub-divisions in Antarctica continent. The continent is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. Antarctica is expanded on a total area of 14.4 million kilometers. It is also the fifth largest continent in the world.

Antarctica has extreme climatic conditions. The continent is categorized into three major climatic regions. They are the Antarctic Peninsula, interior and the coastal areas. The map on Antarctica indicates all the ice-shelves of the continent. The ice shelves of Antarctica are Ronne Ice Shelf, Ross Ice Shelf, Larsen Ice Shelf, Ruser-Larsen ice Shelf, Fimbul Ice Shelf, Amery Ice Shelf, West Ice Shelf, Shacletor Ice Shelf and Getz Ice Shelf.

The map of Antarctica also indicates the division between the West and East by the Transantarctic Mountains. The major locations covered in the Antarctica Map are marked in yellow color. Most of these are the research stations of different nations located in different parts of Antarctica. Some of the major research stations include:

Neumayer	Showa	Muzuho	Mawson
Halley	Davis	Casey	Zhong Shan
Coats Land	Dakshin Gangotri	Molodezhnaya

Different Locations in Antarctica

In the Printable map of Antarctica two colors have been used to distinguish the land areas from the water bodies. The locations marked in the Antarctica political Map includes:

Antactic Peninsula	Knox Coast	Budd Coast
Sabrina Coast	Casey, colony of Australia	Banzare Coaste
Clarie Land	Adelie Land	King George V Land
Alexander L	Prince Harald Land	Queen Maud Land
Molodezhnaya of Russia	Enderby Land	Muzuho, the colony of Japan
Mawson belongs to Australia	Mac Robertson Land	Princess Elizabeth Land
Neumayer Germany	Dakshin Gangotri under India	Belgica Mts. Showa of Japan
Queen Marry Land	Halley	Anvers 1
Ronne Ice Shelf	Cape Damley	Oales Lands
Cape Adare	Mcmurdo	Marrie Byrd Land
West Antarctica	East Antarctica	Dominion Range
Polar Plateau	Heritage Ra	Ronne Ice Shelf
Berkner Island	Transa	Pensacola Mts
Cape Norvegia	Ruder-Larsen Ice Shelf	West Ice Shelf
Shackletor Ice Shelf	South Magnetic Pole	Leningradskaya, colony of Russia

The map of Antarctica also marks the surrounding seas, rivers, oceans, bays and canals. These are:

Weddell Sea	Scotia Sea	Atlantic Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean

Islands Surrounded Antarctica are also pointed out in the map. The islands include:

Anvers Island	Joinville Island	Thurston Island	Balleny Islands
Adelaide Island	Alexander Island

Claimant nations on the territories of Antarctica

Many nations claim their right on different territories in Antarctica. The nations, which claim on different territories of Antarctica, are France, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina and United Kingdom.

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