The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Antarctica and extending outward under the surrounding oceans. Plate tectonics (from Greek τέκτων tektōn "builder" or "mason" describes the large scale motions of Earth 's Lithosphere A continent is one of several large Landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by Convention rather than any strict criteria with seven regions An ocean (from Greek, ''Okeanos'' (Oceanus) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the Hydrosphere. 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 Nazca Plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic Tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west The South American Plate is a Tectonic plate covering the Continent of South America and extending eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The African Plate is a Tectonic plate which includes the Continent of Africa, as well as oceanic crust which lies between the continent and various surrounding The Indo-Australian Plate is a major Tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding Ocean, and extends northwest to include the The Scotia Plate is an oceanic Tectonic plate bordering the South American Plate on the north the South Sandwich Plate to the east and the Antarctic In Plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a The Pacific Plate is an oceanic Tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PAR is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on the seafloor of the South Pacific Ocean, separating the Pacific Plate
The Antarctic plate is roughly 16,900,000 square kilometers. 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. A centimetre ( American spelling: centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one hundredth
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