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Apéndice 11<br />

ANTARCTICA - ARTIC DISIMILARITIES<br />

ANTARCTICA<br />

ARTIC<br />

* Geographic *<br />

Land surrounded by seas<br />

Surrounding seas uninhabited<br />

Fresh ice surrounded by salt ice<br />

Sea surrounded by land<br />

Surrounding land inhabited<br />

Basin ice of salty surrounded by fresh ice<br />

Wide and free connection with surrounded Restricted connection with adjacent<br />

the 360 o Barents seas and Bering straight<br />

Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans arround oceans, only through the Groenlandia and<br />

* Politic *<br />

There is no economical activity rules,<br />

Antarctic Treaty<br />

Involved countries don't exercise<br />

sovereignty<br />

No harbours<br />

Economical activity is greatly developed all<br />

the year long<br />

Coastal states exercise sovereignty &<br />

national regulations<br />

Several overseas harbours with annual<br />

economical activity, many of them covered<br />

by sea ice for more than 7 months per year<br />

* Environmental *<br />

Has two additional poles besides the three<br />

of the Artic: cold pole and relative<br />

inaccessibility pole<br />

Only has three poles: geographic, mag<strong>net</strong>ic<br />

and geomag<strong>net</strong>ic<br />

It's the coldest region in the world<br />

Tere is no terrestrial fauna<br />

Inferior vegetation reduced to moss, lichen,<br />

seaweed, etc.<br />

Predominant tabular icebergs<br />

Icebergs belt sorrounds all the continent<br />

There is terrestrial fauna in the Southern<br />

limits<br />

Superior vegetation (conifer, etc.) all the<br />

Arctic Polar Circle around<br />

Pinnacular or pyramidal icebergs<br />

Icebergs only in the Southern coasts of<br />

Groenlandia and Eastern of America<br />

Originates the biggest and most numerous<br />

icebergs<br />

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