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—Welcome to WikiProject Antarctica—
Antarctica map. Source: CIA World Factbook
This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the continent of Antarctica participants section.
This project covers the creation and maintenance of articles related to the continent of Antarctica, its geology and geologic history, geography, climate, lifeforms, political and scientific history. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Antarctica in a fair and accurate manner.
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica :edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2022-01-09
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
Article requests Doctor Guillermo Mann Base (es ) General Jorge Boonen Rivera Base (es ) Yelcho Base (es ) Ski plane Cleanup Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , Laura Crispini , Mac. Robertson Land Expand San Martín Base Merge Effects of climate change Split Visa policies of British Overseas Territories Stubs East Antarctic Ice Sheet , George VI Ice Shelf , and other Antarctica stubs .Verify Antarctic Circumpolar Current , Argentine Antarctica , Antarctic Bottom Water , Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme , Life in the Freezer , Rothera Research Station Other :Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica/Articles page in alphabetical order, where it can be checked for recent changes
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Dentren Chris Finavon Fishdecoy - focus: McMurdo Sound geographic area. Stickler for using footnotes and citing sources.Daniel Niel Malan Polylerus - I'd love to help outZatoichi26 Æe tlr Cre ejl Satu Suro interested in project management (correct category tags etc.) and taggingBrianKliesen - Updating areas around McMurdo Sound and the US Antarctic Program.Ictionary - I add to the English Portal:Antarctica when I can.Like tears in rain (talk ) can give some help from :frRatzer McMurdo Dry Valleys , individual valleys, lakes, rivers, etc.Phanly (talk ) irregular editor particularly interested in impacts of climate change on Antarctica dinghy (talk ) 00:49, 6 April 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] talk ) - Interested in geology, climate change and the Ross Dependency.DiverDave - Interested in Australian Antarctic Territory , geology , orogeny , history, ANARE .ContrillionAU (talk ) 10:23, 15 August 2010 (UTC) [ reply ] pepper :.:∙:∙ Guy Macon - Electronics Engineer who has designed equipment for polar use. Would like to work in Antarctica some day.Arzino - Interested in Antarctic Geography (Islands, Mountains...)User:Solo Toady - I am willing to work on improving the Alexander Island stub articles.Jan1nad — A to Z via USGS GNIS fixing wikilinks, citations and grammarMaias - Fauna and IBAsLemnaminor Shebaks (talk ) 21:55, 13 May 2013 (UTC) [ reply ] Altamel - South Shetland and South Orkney IslandsTjlynnjr Apidium23 - Geography, United States Antarctic Program (USAP) entries, and paleontology.Libertybison (talk ) - historySeazzy - Ross Sea, interested to learn more about continent-wide flora and fauna, climate and geologyCrefollet - General interest in Antarctica; hope to live/work there one dayJanitoalevic - I like Geography/Politics, i'm from Chile, i've been at Puerto Williams , and i've expanded and created articles about Chile in the Antarctica.Avismother - Interested in territorial claims, wildlife, and general human interaction with and influence on Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands.Chesipiero - Antarctica-related listsA Guy into Books (talk ) 20:47, 17 August 2017 (UTC) Just general interest.[ reply ] LandoBando (talk · contribs ) 17:59:25, 3 March 2019 (UTC) - Heavily interested in polar regions, especially in everything related to Antarctica.[ reply ] talk · contribs ) 20:35:18, 5 June 2019 (UTC) – Here because I think Antarctica is cool, pun intended.[ reply ] talk ) 21:22, 14 June 2020 (UTC) [ reply ] talk · contribs ) 11:50:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC) On the place and aviation.[ reply ] James F. Brandau , Scott Base .TheRealGrantma (talk ) 01:04, 8 November 2020 (UTC) [ reply ] talk · contribs ) 13:09:46, 8 December 2020 (UTC) -Interested in human culture, tradition, and history around Antarctica[ reply ] talk · contribs ) 21:29:50, 5 February 2021 (UTC) -Antarctica seems so exotic and foreign to me, and I find almost everything about it interesting[ reply ] Douuwwurunwuuzhe (talk · contribs ) 23:30:44, 21 April 2021 (UTC) history, Geology, Geography and Scinetific Researches[ reply ] talk · contribs ) 04:42:10, 7 July 2021 (UTC) Interesting. And cool. Ba-doom cha[ reply ] talk · contribs ) Academic working in the field of Antarctic biotaMeitner109 (talk · contribs ) 13 August 2021 Antarctic historyLiam2520 (talk ) 06:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC) [ reply ] talk · contribs ) 01:01:42, 7 January 2022 (UTC) Physical geography mainly[ reply ] talk ) Physical geography mainlyBuckland1072 (talk · contribs ) 12:56:20, 13 June 2022 (UTC) British Antarctic history[ reply ] talk · contribs ) 15 July 2022 - Interested in geography and climateJake Jakubowski (Talk) 04:33, 7 June 2023 (UTC) [ reply ] talk · contribs ) 27 Oct 2023 - South Georgia Island , British Graham Land Expedition , Nautical VesselsPuddlesofmilk (talk · contribs ) 20:22:40, 21 February 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]
Anarcticpenguin – single edit accountBrucePL West Antarctica, Marie Byrd Land, geology, climate history – Inactive since Nov 2011robertjohnsonrj – Inactive since Dec 2006Badbilltucker - Will help out where possible. – Inactive since Jan 2007Ice Explorer (talk ) Mostly working on Norwegian whalers and explorers. – Inactive since Jan 2010Keesiewonder – Inactive since Nov 2007Crested Penguin John Carter 20:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC) - Can help with assessments and other such activity. – single edit account[ reply ] Lazulilasher Interested in explorers. – Inactive since Apr 2013Madison.Byfield.123 05:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC) id love to help, even tho im only 11! – Inactive since Mar 2012[ reply ] talk ) 13:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC) I'm 12 but i'll try – Inactive since Aug 2012[ reply ] talk ) – Inactive since Jul 2009Shamanchill (talk ) 06:28, 15 May 2008 (UTC) owner of the largest private collection of first-hand Antarctic Exploration publications in Canada – Inactive since Nov 2009[ reply ] Polargeo 27 January 2009 - Ice streams – Inactive since Oct 2010Austin99 - Will update & add articles concerning the Texas Tech geological expeditions mapping the central portion of the Queen Maud Range, The Transantarctic Mountains and Marie Byrd Land. – Inactive since Feb 2009Solanum dulcamara (talk ) - Irregular editor currently obsessed with Antarctic exploration and other things Antarctic. – Inactive since Apr 2009Loopygrumpkins – Inactive since Dec 2012Daniel Benweathers Will help out where I can. Interested in exploration, particularly Ernest Shackleton. 20:26, 16 October 2010 (UTC) – Inactive since Nov 2010[ reply ] Angelikfire - Interested in research stations in Antarctica. – Inactive since Mar 2013User:Αλεξανδράκης - Member of Adelie Land work group – Inactive since Aug 2012[ edit ] WikiProject Antarctica participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Antarctica participants
For other Antarctica user templates see Category:Antarctica user templates
The "Antarctican Penguin Barnstar" and "The Antarctica Barnstar" may be awarded to any Wikipedian producing excellent work on Antarctic topics:
The Antarctican Penguin Barnstar
The Antarctica Barnstar
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Antarctica articles by quality and importance
Quality
Importance
Top
High
Mid
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NA
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Total
FA 9
9
9
5
32
FL
1
1
FM
14
14
A
1
1
GA
7
4
22
33
B 7
23
18
33
6
87
C 17
27
65
148
42
299
Start 9
62
114
627
286
1,098
Stub
2
65
4,956
2,803
7,826
List 4
11
8
104
1
1
129
Category
1,596
1,596
Disambig
16
16
File
19
19
Project
14
14
Redirect
3,832
2,850
6,682
Template
174
174
NA
1
2
3
Other
7
7
Assessed
46
142
283
9,729
4,693
3,138
18,031
Total
46 142 283 9,729 4,693 3,138 18,031
WikiWork factors (? ω = 53,970
Ω = 5.76
1.4% List-Class 82.3% Stub-Class 11.6% Start-Class 3.1% C-Class 0.9% B-Class 0.3% GA-Class 0% A-Class 0.3% FA-Class
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24 May 2009 April 17, 2009 (just created after the publication in Science of a paper by Mikucki et al. (2009) dealing with a rare subglacial microbial community isolated for more than 1.5 Ma in a hypersaline brine imprisoned below the Taylor Glacier ) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Antarctica Antarctica on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Antarctica Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica Template:WikiProject Antarctica Antarctica articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale .
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