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West Antarctic Ice Sheet

segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West (or Lesser) Antarctica
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Summary

West Antarctic Ice Sheet is an ice sheet[1]. It draws 91 Wikipedia views per month (ice_sheet category, ranking #3 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet is located in Antarctic Treaty area[3].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's image is recorded as Antarctica ice shelves-en.svg[4].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's image is recorded as Antarctica ice shelves-fr.svg[5].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's continent is recorded as Antarctica[6].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's instance of is recorded as ice sheet[7].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's part of is recorded as Antarctic ice sheet[8].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Commons category is recorded as West Antarctic Ice Sheet[9].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -80, 'lon': -120}[10].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03wy_f[11].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's described by source is recorded as Antarctica: The Melting Continent[12].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/West-Antarctic-Ice-Sheet[13].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6638994[14].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's SCAR Composite Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 17386[15].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[16].
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet's New Zealand Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 10709[17].

Why It Matters

West Antarctic Ice Sheet draws 91 Wikipedia views per month (ice_sheet category, ranking #3 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → Antarctica
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Climate change
    Located in → —
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P131]]: [[Q10372207]], fix redirect [[Q21590062]] → [[Q10372207]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/CB/bf164d4e5ee1|details]])"
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