Associations to the word «Antarctica»

ANTARCTICA, proper noun. The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.

ANTARCTICA, proper noun. The wider South Polar region comprising the Antarctic Continent as well as the adjacent Antarctic and Subantarctic islands, and the Southern Ocean waters situated south of the Antarctic Convergence.

ANTARCTICA, noun. An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep; "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia".