Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica

Active participants

To join WikiProject Antarctica, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place participant identification on their user page.

1. Rodogg715
2. Dentren
3. Chris
4. Finavon
5. Fishdecoy - focus: McMurdo Sound geographic area. Stickler for using footnotes and citing sources.
6. Daniel - Mountains, valleys and other specific georgraphical features.
7. Niel Malan
8. Polylerus - I'd love to help out
9. Zatoichi26
10. Æetlr Creejl
11. SatuSuro interested in project management (correct category tags etc.) and tagging
12. BrianKliesen - Updating areas around McMurdo Sound and the US Antarctic Program.
13. Ictionary - I add to the English Portal:Antarctica when I can.
14. Like tears in rain (talk) can give some help from :fr
15. Ratzer McMurdo Dry Valleys, individual valleys, lakes, rivers, etc.
16. Phanly (talk) irregular editor particularly interested in impacts of climate change on Antarctica dinghy (talk) 00:49, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
17. Avenue (talk) - Interested in geology, climate change and the Ross Dependency.
18. DiverDave - Interested in Australian Antarctic Territory, geology, orogeny, history, ANARE.
19. ContrillionAU (talk) 10:23, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
20. ∙:∙:.:pepper:.:∙:∙
21. Guy Macon - Electronics Engineer who has designed equipment for polar use. Would like to work in Antarctica some day.
22. Arzino - Interested in Antarctic Geography (Islands, Mountains...)
23. User:Solo Toady - I am willing to work on improving the Alexander Island stub articles.
24. Jan1nad — A to Z via USGS GNIS fixing wikilinks, citations and grammar
25. Maias - Fauna and IBAs
26. Lemnaminor
27. Shebaks (talk) 21:55, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
28. Alcoll12 - Geology, geography, history of exploration
29. Altamel - South Shetland and South Orkney Islands
30. Tjlynnjr
31. Apidium23 - Geography, United States Antarctic Program (USAP) entries, and paleontology.
32. Libertybison (talk) - history
33. Seazzy - Ross Sea, interested to learn more about continent-wide flora and fauna, climate and geology
34. Crefollet - General interest in Antarctica; hope to live/work there one day
35. Janitoalevic - I like Geography/Politics, i'm from Chile, i've been at Puerto Williams, and i've expanded and created articles about Chile in the Antarctica.
36. Avismother - Interested in territorial claims, wildlife, and general human interaction with and influence on Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands.
37. Chesipiero - Antarctica-related lists
38. A Guy into Books (talk) 20:47, 17 August 2017 (UTC) Just general interest.
39. Sixflashphoto - Geography, United States Antarctic Program (USAP), and general interest.
40. LandoBando (talk · contribs) 17:59:25, 3 March 2019 (UTC)  - Heavily interested in polar regions, especially in everything related to Antarctica.
41. Deror (talk) 21:22, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
42. Gerald Waldo Luis (talk · contribs) 11:50:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)  On the place and aviation.
43. Mcmangold - focus: James F. Brandau, Scott Base.
44. TheRealGrantma (talk) 01:04, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
45. Federalwafer (talk · contribs) 13:09:46, 8 December 2020 (UTC)  -Interested in human culture, tradition, and history around Antarctica
46. Jack Ryan Morris (talk · contribs) 21:29:50, 5 February 2021 (UTC)  -Antarctica seems so exotic and foreign to me, and I find almost everything about it interesting
47. User:Gandalf the Groovy Antarctic history is pretty neat
48. Douuwwurunwuuzhe (talk · contribs) 23:30:44, 21 April 2021 (UTC)  history, Geology, Geography and Scinetific Researches
49. Elytrian (talk · contribs) 04:42:10, 7 July 2021 (UTC)  Interesting. And cool. Ba-doom cha
50. Contrawwftw (talk · contribs) Academic working in the field of Antarctic biota
51. Meitner109 (talk · contribs) 13 August 2021 Antarctic history
52. Liam2520 (talk) 06:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
53. NotADev (talk · contribs) 01:01:42, 7 January 2022 (UTC)  Physical geography mainly
54. Deror (talk) Physical geography mainly
55. Buckland1072 (talk · contribs) 12:56:20, 13 June 2022 (UTC)  British Antarctic history
56. Nyonyatwelve (talk · contribs) 15 July 2022 - Interested in geography and climate
57. Jake Jakubowski (Talk) 04:33, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
58. UsualDosage (talk · contribs) 27 Oct 2023 - South Georgia Island, British Graham Land Expedition, Nautical Vessels
59. Puddlesofmilk (talk · contribs) 20:22:40, 21 February 2024 (UTC) 
60. ABHIGYAN ANUBHAV (talk) interested Indian Antarctic Programme
61. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk · contribs) 22:00:28, 5 February 2025 (UTC) 
62. Independentgeoscience Major interest in Shackleton's voyages and the Endurance (1912 ship)

Former participants

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Anarcticpenguin – single edit account
2. BrucePL West Antarctica, Marie Byrd Land, geology, climate history – Inactive since Nov 2011
3. robertjohnsonrj – Inactive since Dec 2006
4. Badbilltucker - Will help out where possible. – Inactive since Jan 2007
5. Ice Explorer (talk) Mostly working on Norwegian whalers and explorers. – Inactive since Jan 2010
6. Keesiewonder – Inactive since Nov 2007
7. Crested Penguin – Inactive since Jun 2007
8. John Carter 20:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC) - Can help with assessments and other such activity. – single edit account
9. gdenyer – Inactive since Aug 2011
10. Lazulilasher Interested in explorers. – Inactive since Apr 2013
11. Madison.Byfield.123 05:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC) id love to help, even tho im only 11! – Inactive since Mar 2012
12. Somritabanerjee (talk) 13:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC) I'm 12 but i'll try – Inactive since Aug 2012
13. Euge246 (talk) – Inactive since Jul 2009
14. Shamanchill (talk) 06:28, 15 May 2008 (UTC) owner of the largest private collection of first-hand Antarctic Exploration publications in Canada – Inactive since Nov 2009
15. Iceseismic - updating pages for Skelton and David Glacier regions – Inactive since May 2013
16. Polargeo 27 January 2009 - Ice streams – Inactive since Oct 2010
17. Austin99 - Will update & add articles concerning the Texas Tech geological expeditions mapping the central portion of the Queen Maud Range, The Transantarctic Mountains and Marie Byrd Land. – Inactive since Feb 2009
18. Solanum dulcamara (talk) - Irregular editor currently obsessed with Antarctic exploration and other things Antarctic. – Inactive since Apr 2009
19. Loopygrumpkins – Inactive since Dec 2012
20. Daniel Benweathers Will help out where I can. Interested in exploration, particularly Ernest Shackleton. 20:26, 16 October 2010 (UTC) – Inactive since Nov 2010
21. Angelikfire - Interested in research stations in Antarctica. – Inactive since Mar 2013
22. User:Αλεξανδράκης - Member of Adelie Land work group – Inactive since Aug 2012

Participant identification

WikiProject Antarctica participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Antarctica participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Antarctica participants]]	none	linked pages
{{User WikiProject Antarctica}}	This user participates in WikiProject Antarctica.	linked pages
{{User WP Antarctica}}	This user participates in WikiProject Antarctica.	linked pages
{{User WP Antarctica|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Antarctica.	linked pages

For other Antarctica userboxes see Category:Antarctica userboxes.

Assessment

• Assessment Department

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia – external territories of Australia fall within this project

Work groups

Statistics

Articles assessed for quality: 99.9% complete

Antarctica articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	10	9	10	4			33
FL		1					1
FM					17		17
A				1			1
GA		9	4	23			36
B	8	24	18	40		11	101
C	17	33	69	164		58	341
Start	8	58	118	671		295	1,150
Stub			61	4,914		2,773	7,748
List	4	11	8	107	1	4	135
Category					1,669		1,669
Disambig					20		20
File					20		20
Portal					2		2
Project					14		14
Redirect				3,277	3,426		6,703
Template					178		178
Other					5		5
Assessed	47	145	288	9,201	5,352	3,141	18,174
Unassessed						14	14
Total	47	145	288	9,201	5,352	3,155	18,188
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 53,978			Ω = 5.74

•   FA-Class: 33
•   A-Class: 1
•   GA-Class: 36
•   B-Class: 101
•   C-Class: 341
•   Start-Class: 1,150
•   Stub-Class: 7,749
•   FL-Class: 1
•   List-Class: 135

•   Top-importance: 49
•   High-importance: 147
•   Mid-importance: 291
•   Low-importance: 9,203
•   Bottom-importance: 0
•   NA-importance: 5,355
•   Unknown-importance: 3,163

• 1.4% List-Class
• 81% Stub-Class
• 12% Start-Class
• 3.6% C-Class
• 1.1% B-Class
• 0.4% GA-Class
• 0% A-Class
• 0.4% FA-Class
• 0.1% remaining

Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Antarctica articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Former featured articles

Featured lists

A-Class articles

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Formerly recognized content

New articles

Please list any newly created articles below, and the date of their creation. Also, if they qualify, consider nominating them for inclusion in the Did you know section of the Wikipedia:Main page;

• RRS Shackleton

24 May 2009

• Blood Falls

April 17, 2009 (just created after the publication in Science of a paper by Mikucki et al. (2009) dealing with a rare subglacial microbial community isolated for more than 1.5 Ma in a hypersaline brine imprisoned below the Taylor Glacier)

• Tourism in Antarctica Jan 2010

• Quest (ship) 3 March 2010
• Georges Lecointe (explorer) 4 April 2013
• Antarctic sea ice 7 July 2014
• Mount Rees (Marie Byrd Land) 25 December 2015
• Antarctica Day 7 December 2020
• Icestock 30 April 2021
• Antarctic gateway cities 23 February 2021
• Borga Base 13 August 2022
• Drescher Ice Camp 14 August 2022
• Druzhnaya Station 21 August 2022

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Antarctica

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Antarctica, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Antarctica on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AntarcticaWikipedia:WikiProject AntarcticaTemplate:WikiProject AntarcticaAntarctica ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Stubs

If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

• {{Antarctica-stub}} (^{[clarification needed]}) - stubs relating to Antarctica in general (e.g., expeditions, exploration, international law, wildlife)
• {{Antarctica-geo-stub}} (^{[clarification needed]}) - stubs on Antarctica's geographical features
  • {{Subantarctic-geo-stub}} ((^{[clarification needed]}) - stubs on the geography of the Sub-Antarctic islands

Userbox

• {{User WikiProject Antarctica}}

WikiProject box

• {{WPbox|Antarctica}}

See also

• Britannica's bibliography for Antarctica cited Alberts 1995 and Stewart 1990 first for several years. Replace lorem ipsum with the specific article.
  • Alberts, Fred G. (1995). "lorem ipsum" (PDF). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (2nd ed.). National Science Foundation.
  • Stewart, John (1990). "lorem ipsum". Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. McFarland. ISBN 9780899505978.
  • McGonigal, David; Woodworth, Lynn (2001). "lorem ipsum". Antarctica and the Arctic: The Complete Encyclopedia. Firefly Books. ISBN 9781552975459.
  • Trewby, Mary (2002). "lorem ipsum". Antarctica: An Encyclopedia from Abbot Ice Shelf to Zooplankton. Firefly Books. ISBN 9781552975909.
• Per the talk page the Geographic Names Information System simply reproduces Alberts 1995 but with added errors (also see Wikipedia:Reliability of GNIS data)
  • {{gnis|ID|name|type=antarid}}
• Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

External links

• Australian Antarctic Division.
• The United States Antarctic Program (USAP).
• Antarctic base camps and research facilities.

Tools

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