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Population of Antarctica

13 February 2019

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antarctica, population, twitter

20 February 2019 Buy high-res file -- The world of power grids. Very revealing if you map it out. “Interconnected” means there is an AC connection and it’s synced. There may be some mistakes on the map, a lot of info is proprietary/hard to get. Grey areas have no high voltage lines, as is sort of implied. Of course the reality is way more complicated than this map, even within “interconnected” areas there is a patchwork of partial connections. ...

Population of Antarctica

13 February 2019

maps

antarctica, population, twitter

13 February 2019 Buy high-res file -- Antarctica—0.00008 people per sq. km! McMurdo is by far the largest community on Antarctica with 1200 people in the summer and 250 in the winter. It’s located at the southernmost ice pack-free point on the continent. King George Island is home to a dozen smaller stations whose populations add up. In many cases the stations are so close to one another that they are basically one community (e. ...