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This project covers the creation and maintainence 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.
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| Here are some tasks you can do: - Requests: Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Ellsworth Station
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[edit] Participants
- robertjohnsonrj
- Badbilltucker - Will help out where possible.
- Ice Explorer (talk) Mostly working on Norwegian whalers and explorers.
- Dentren
- Keesiewonder
- Chris
- Crested Penguin
- Finavon
- Fishdecoy - focus: McMurdo Sound geographic area. Stickler for using footnotes and citing sources.
- John Carter 20:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC) - Can help with assessments and other such activity.
- Daniel - Mountains, valleys and other specific georgraphical features.
- Roland'91
- Niel Malan
- Polylerus - I'd love to help out
- Zatoichi26
- Æetlr Creejl
- SatuSuro interested in project management (correct category tags etc) and tagging
- gdenyer
- BrianKliesen - Updating areas around McMurdo Sound and the US Antarctic Program.
- Lazulilasher Interested in explorers.
- Madison.Byfield.123 05:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC) id love to help, even tho im only 11!
- Somritabanerjee (talk) 13:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC) I'm 12 but i'll try
- Ictionary - I add to the English Portal:Antarctica when I can.
- Euge246 (talk)
- canpop(talk)
- Shamanchill (talk) 06:28, 15 May 2008 (UTC) owner of the largest private collection of first-hand Antarctic Exploration publications in Canada
- Like tears in rain (talk) can give some help from :fr
- Ratzer McMurdo Dry Valleys, individual valleys, lakes, rivers, etc.
- Iceseismic - updating pages for Skelton and David Glacier regions
- Polargeo 27 January 2009 - Ice streams
- Austin99 - 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.
- Solanum dulcamara (talk) - Irregular editor currently obsessed with Antarctic exploration and other things Antarctic.
- Phanly (talk) irregular editor particularly interested in impacts of climate change on Antarctica dinghy (talk) 00:49, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
- Avenue (talk) - Interested in geology, climate change and the Ross Dependency.
- DiverDave - Interested in Australian Antarctic Territory, geology, orogeny, history, ANARE.
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Antarctica
articles | Importance |
| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total |
| Quality |
 FA | 7 | 9 | 6 | | 1 | 23 |
| FL | | 1 | | | | 1 |
 GA | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 |
| B | 9 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 41 |
| C | | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
| Start | 15 | 49 | 39 | 17 | 199 | 319 |
| Stub | 2 | 11 | 75 | 618 | 1244 | 1950 |
| List | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 22 |
| Assessed | 36 | 97 | 137 | 643 | 1461 | 2374 |
| Unassessed | | | | | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 36 | 97 | 137 | 643 | 1463 | 2376 |
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- 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)
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