Antarctic Plate edit extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (using Wikipedia Reflection Script)

     The Antarctic plate, shown in blue

The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Antarctica and extending outward under the surrounding oceans. The Antarctic Plate has a boundary with the Nazca Plate, the South American Plate, the African Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the Scotia Plate and a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge.

The Antarctic plate is roughly 60,900,000 square kilometers¹. It is the fifth biggest plate in the world.

The Antarctic plate movement is estimated at least 1 centimeter/per year towards the Atlantic Ocean.

References

1. ^ http://www.ees1.lanl.gov/Wohletz/SFT-Tectonics.htm

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