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Antarctica
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The Erebus glacier in Antarctica comes down from Mt. Erebus and protrudes
off the coast of Ross Island, forming an 11-12 km long ice tongue - a long and narrow sheet of ice projecting
out from the coastline. The Erebus Ice Tongue is the serrated, blue-rimmed "knife" extending toward image
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This image shows a rare clear view of the South Pole and the Ross Sea, Antarctica. The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) acquired the scene on December 26, 2001. The geographic South Pole is located in the center of Antarctica, .....
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Across the rippling, crevassed whitescape of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet,
two unusual shapes appear in this grayscale satellite image of the frozen continent. The smooth, dark gray oval shapes
are slight depressions in the surface of the ice sheet that trace out the shorelines of two lakes.....
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