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Night lasts for five months here
8,500 km² (3,300 sq. miles). An ice-covered island 110 km long, with all but its North coast lying within the Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
Mount Bird was active between 3.8 and 4.6 million years ago.
Mount Discovery formed about 5.3 million years ago. The youngest vents are 1.8 million years old.
Erebus is an active volcano with a convecting lava lake within a summit crater. It has been continuously active since 1972.
Argentina
United States
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2003
2006, long distance swimming |
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