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40: Antarctica

Second Decade by Kerkoporta LLC

Apr 7, 201949:06Society & Culture

For most of human history, Antarctica was more of a concept than a reality. Geographers from ancient times and voyagers in the Age of Discovery supposed there was a continent at the bottom of the world, but no one had ac...

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