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Antarctica
continent name attributed to Scottish cartographer John George Bartholomew, who used it on a map published in 1887. From antarctic (q.v.). Hypothetical southern continents had been imagined since antiquity; the first sighting of Antarctica by Europeans probably was in 1820 (Lazarev and Bellingshausen). Also compare antipodes.
updated on September 23, 2022
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