Antarctica lies over the South Pole, so any notion of there being an east, west, north or south division of this land mass is clearly absurd. Nevertheless, there is an area on this continent known as Western Antarctica.This is so-called because:rna) On the commonly used Mercator projection, this part of Antarctica is at the bottom, on the left, i.e. western edgernb) It is located in the western hemispherernc) It is named afterthe politician and statesman Baron Charles Ellis Western, 1767-1844.
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