大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 Antarctic Peninsula
释义：
Antarctic Peninsula 南极半岛
例句：
He says that in the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists estimate that climate change has caused temperatures to increase by two or three degrees Celsius over the past fifty years.
The base at Detaille Island was built in 1956 for scientists surveying the Antarctic Peninsula.
The prime southern destination is the Antarctic Peninsula, a mountainous continuation of the Andes.
WWF, meanwhile, looked at conditions at the Earth's other climatic extreme - the cold of the Antarctic peninsula.
But scientists say the ice around the Antarctic Peninsula is disintegrating at unprecedented rates and blame warmer weather.
The Antarctic Peninsula sea ice expanse is nearly 200% greater now than usual.
This ikaite record qualitatively supports that both the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age extended to the Antarctic Peninsula.
And it was here, on this desolate island near the Antarctic Peninsula, that the Guinness book beckoned her to a new career.
Last month, the MS Nordkapp cruise ship hit rocks near Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, spilling diesel oil into the bay.
Several dozen ships now cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula each year.
The scientists say that this is what happened in 2002 on the Antarctic peninsula when the Larsen B shelf collapsed spectacularly in just a month.
But the Antarctic Peninsula is also one of the most rapidly warming regions on the planet, and as a result, has attracted close study by climate scientists.
"Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened, " David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey said, according to the Web site.
From the top of Devil Island, off the eastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, the watery sun reflects off the vast tabular icebergs drifting around the Weddell Sea.
Their Atlantic Odyssey cruise is the ultimate in ice vacations, lasting nearly 40 days, with visits to the Antarctic peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands.
Scientists say the western Antarctic peninsula -- the piece of the continent that stretches toward South America -- has warmed more than any other place on Earth over the past 50 years, rising by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit each decade.
He said recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has estimated the possible global temperature rise by 2100 as 5.8 degrees C, had confirmed a "spectacular" retreat and collapse of ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula.
Sights you can expect to gawk at in awe on your voyage include a variety of points on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, a whole mess of seals, four different types of penguins and a starkly beautiful panorama of unforgiving rock, ice, and snow.
The Siple Dome, an ice dome roughly 100 km long and 100 km wide, about 100 km east of the Siple Coast of Antartica, also reflects effects of the Little Ice Age synchronously with the GISP2 record, as do sediment cores from the Bransfield Basin of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Trips alight on various islands and also the Antarctic Peninsula to visit research stations run by different countries, giving a sense of the island's recent human history and the fragility of our hold on this most remote part of the world, beautiful and full of thrilling danger all at once.
In hopes of uncovering more about the effects of glaciers on the ocean floor, as well as details about the living creatures that inhabit said areas, UK scientists are carting the machine aboard the RSS James Clark Ross as they head for the Marguerite Bay area on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
