Antarctic, housing subdivisions, housing estate. For decades, those who lived and worked on Antarctic bases had no hope of readily communicating with the outside world.

For decades, those who lived and worked on Antarctic bases had no hope of readily communicating with the outside world. But now, Starlink has come to Antarctica, bringing with it the sort of connectivity enjoyed by the rest of the world.

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How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink

The seventh continent has always been a bleak, unconnected place. Elon Musk’s satellite internet is changing that, and people want to see what life is like there.

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Glaciologist Dr Robert Mulvaney, from the British Antarctic Survey, becomes an OBE. He is one of the world's leading scientists dealing with ice cores.
housing estate UK noun [C] (US housing development, ALSO subdivision)
an area containing a large number of houses or apartments built close together at the same time:
They live on/in a housing estate.

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a.Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

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━━ a., n. 南極の; （the A-） 南極; 南氷洋.
antarctic Circle　（the ～） 南極圏（限界線）.
antarctic Continent　（the ～） 南極大陸 （Ant・arc・ti・ca ）.
antarctic Ocean　（the ～） 南極海, 南氷洋.
antarctic Peninsula　（the ～） 南極半島 ((西南極大陸にある半島)).
antarctic Pole　（the ～） 南極.