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    at Vostok Station. It is also extremely dry (technically a desert, or so called polar desert), averaging 166 millimetres (6.5 in) of precipitation per...
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    Fellfield (ST 6) Subantarctic Fernbrake Vegetation (ST 5) Subantarctic Mire (ST 3) Subantarctic Polar Desert (PD 1) "National Vegetation Map". South African National...
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    Tundra (redirect from Polar Grassland)
    "Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2 November 2009. Longton, R.E. (1988). Biology of Polar Bryophytes...
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    to the relatively mild conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula and the subantarctic islands, which have warmer temperatures and more liquid water. Much of...
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  • surrounding islands and the ocean. Polar regions also contain the subantarctic and subarctic zone which separate the polar regions from the temperate regions...
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    The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, p. 4. Houghton-Mifflin Books. ISBN 0-618-21921-8. Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A...
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    Campbell Island, New Zealand (category New Zealand subantarctic islands)
    Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku is an uninhabited subantarctic island of New Zealand, and the main island of the Campbell Island group. It covers 112.68...
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    Gentoo penguin (category Birds of subantarctic islands)
    subspecies of the gentoo penguin have been recognised: P. p. papua (subantarctic gentoo) and the smaller P. p. ellsworthi (Antarctic gentoo). However...
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    Glacier (redirect from Polar glacier)
    contained within vast ice sheets (also known as "continental glaciers") in the polar regions, but glaciers may be found in mountain ranges on every continent...
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    Statistics Division's geoscheme: Antarctica by geography: Antarctic and Subantarctic islands Bouvet Island (some geographers consider it as a part of South...
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