Antarctic Peninsula

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noun

a peninsula in western Antarctica, south of South America.

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Formerly Palm·er Pen·in·su·la .

Words nearby Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic beech, Antarctic Circle, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Antarctic Convergence, Antarctic Ocean, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Plate, Antarctic prion, Antarctic Zone, Antares, antarthritic

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How to use Antarctic Peninsula in a sentence

Originally it was a low-level insurgency mainly confined to the Sinai Peninsula .
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KIEV, Ukraine—He took the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea with just a few shots fired.
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As the Arabian Peninsula flourished, the area became the center of cultural development.
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As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
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Putin mentioned the word before, during the Crimea crises last spring before he annexed the strategic peninsula.
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If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
An aeroplane had reported that the Goeben had come into the Narrows, presumably to fire over the Peninsula with her big guns.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
The sailors had hoped they would be able to shield the Southern point of the Peninsula by interposing their ships but they can't.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
As I write dead quiet reigns on the Peninsula, literally dead quiet.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Before leaving for France the Emperor had drawn up a cut and dried plan for the systematic conquest of the whole Peninsula.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison

British Dictionary definitions for Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

noun

the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the southFormer name (until 1964): Palmer Peninsula

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