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    Farthest South refers to the most southerly latitude reached by explorers before the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911. Significant...
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    Farthest North describes the most northerly latitude reached by explorers, before the first successful expedition to the North Pole rendered the expression...
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    the Arctic pole, is located on the Arctic Ocean pack ice at a distance farthest from any landmass. The original position was wrongly believed to lie at...
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  • The Farthest Shore is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published by Atheneum in 1972. It is the third book in the series...
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    southern Albania in Southeastern Europe), and can extend west to Italy's farthest south-eastern coasts. Jordan is climatically and economically part of the...
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    The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite...
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    1773 and December 1773. On 30 January 1774 he reaches 71° 10′ S, his Farthest South, coming within about 120 kilometres (75 mi) of the Antarctic mainland...
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    Ernest Shackleton (category South Pole)
    established a new record Farthest South latitude of 88°23′ S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles or 180 kilometres) from the South Pole, the largest...
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    Antarctica (redirect from South frigid zone)
    entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica...
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    was his farthest south. A determined effort on the part of the French naval officer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier to discover the "South Land"...
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    exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922 Arctic exploration Farthest South History of Antarctica List of Antarctic expeditions List of polar explorers...
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    U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and California, and then Mexico farthest south. The region consists of one long continuous mountain range formed over...
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    was his farthest south. A determined effort on the part of the French naval officer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier to discover the "South Land"...
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    Nimrod Expedition (category South Pole)
    was to be first to reach the South Pole. This was not attained, but the expedition's southern march reached a Farthest South latitude of 88° 23' S, just...
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    East longitude. Farthest north point: 42° 37' 58,88" North latitude. Farthest south point: 42° 18' 0,07" North latitude. Highest point: Comaloformo (3030...
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    Isla del Meridiano (the "Meridian Island"), is the second-smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands (an autonomous community of Spain), in...
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    previous month) and four days later, at 71°10' S, 106°54' W, achieved his farthest south." "We all observed, that we had not the sight of one fish of any kind...
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    The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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    Discovery Expedition (category South Pole)
    route) on which the South Pole is located. The expedition tried to reach the South Pole travelling as far as the Farthest South mark at a reported 82°17′S...
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    had reached 87° S. On 8 December the Norwegians passed Shackleton's Farthest South record of 88° 23′. As they neared the pole, they looked for any break...
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    Polar explorers. Fram was the wooden ship to have sailed farthest north (85°57'N) and farthest south (78°41'S), and one of the strongest wooden ships ever...
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    Coelacanth (category Marine fish of South Africa)
    of Umzumbe on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, 325 km (202 mi) south of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. This is the farthest south since the original...
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    from there sailed south and rounded Cape Farvel to find suitable land for settlement. He spent his first winter on an island off the south coast. According...
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    sent flurries of genuine snow onto Miami's palm trees. ... It was the farthest south that snow has been reported in the United States since the record books...
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    and historic message, "Underway on nuclear power." On 10 May, she headed south for shakedown. Submerged throughout, she traveled 1,100 nmi (2,000 km; 1...
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    hull developed slow leaks. After ten days, Nautilus reached 82°N, the farthest north any vessel had reached under its own power, and preparations began...
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    descend from the east side of the mountain. The Ridge of Wonders is farthest south and ends at an area away from the mountain called The Island. Battlement...
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    The south magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic south pole, is the point on Earth's Southern Hemisphere where the geomagnetic field lines are directed...
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  • northeastern and east-central Ohio, and north-central West Virginia. The farthest south KDKA-TV is carried on cable is in Beverly, West Virginia. The station...
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    reach the North Pole began in the late 19th century, with the record for "Farthest North" being surpassed on numerous occasions. The first undisputed expedition...
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