Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica

—Welcome to WikiProject Antarctica—



This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the continent of Antarctica with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles about Antarctica. To participate, simply add your name at the participants section.

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This project covers the creation and maintenance of articles related to the continent of Antarctica, its geology and geologic history, geography, climate, lifeforms, political and scientific history. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Antarctica in a fair and accurate manner.

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

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 .

For other Antarctica user templates see .

Barnstars
The "Antarctican Penguin Barnstar" and "The Antarctica Barnstar" may be awarded to any Wikipedian producing excellent work on Antarctic topics:

Userboxes
Add one of the following Wikitext expressions to your user page:

Assessment

 * Assessment Department

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Australia – external territories of Australia fall within this project

Work groups

 * Adelie Land work group
 * Antarctic Chilean Territory work group
 * Argentine Antarctica work group
 * Australian Antarctic Territory work group


 * Brazilian Antarctica work group
 * British Antarctic Territory work group
 * Norwegian Antarctica work group
 * Ross Dependency work group

Statistics

 * Quality operations: A bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.
 * Popular pages: List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.

Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

 * Antarctic krill
 * Antarctica
 * Emperor Penguin
 * Gentoo penguin
 * Marchantiophyta
 * Moss
 * Penguin

Former good articles

 * Air New Zealand Flight 901 - delisted June 2009

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 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

[[Image:Nuvola apps package development.png|20px|Stubs]] 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 - stubs relating to Antarctica in general (e.g., expeditions, exploration, international law, wildlife)
 * Antarctica-geo-stub - stubs on Antarctica's geographical features
 * Subantarctic-geo-stub ( - stubs on the geography of the Sub-Antarctic islands

Userbox

 * User WikiProject Antarctica

Categories

 * List of

[[Image:Gnome-fs-client.svg|20px|External links]] External links

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

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.