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Descriptor English: Antarctic Regions
Descriptor Spanish: Regiones Antárticas
Descriptor regiones antárticas
Entry term(s) Antártica
Antártida
continente antártico
océano Pacífico meridional
región antártica
Scope note: Continente que se encuentra alrededor del Polo Sur y las aguas meridionales de los océanos Atlántico, Pacífico e Índico. Pertenecen a este continente las Dependencias de las islas Malvinas. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p55).
Descriptor Portuguese: Regiões Antárticas
Descriptor French: Régions antarctiques
Entry term(s): Antarctic
Antarctic Region
Antarctica
Southern Pacific Ocean
Tree number(s): Z01.158
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000864
Scope note: The continent lying around the South Pole and the southern waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It includes the Falkland Islands Dependencies. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p55)
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Related: Climatic Zones DeCS
Cold Zones DeCS
Glacial Ecosystem DeCS
DeCS ID: 879
Unique ID: D000864
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Antarctic Regions - Preferred
Concept UI M0001290
Scope note The continent lying around the South Pole and the southern waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It includes the Falkland Islands Dependencies. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p55)
Preferred term Antarctic Regions
Entry term(s) Antarctic
Antarctic Region
Antarctica
Southern Pacific Ocean - Narrower
Concept UI M000739565
Preferred term Southern Pacific Ocean



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