This tiny island like the rest of the massive landmass in the Antarctic is designated for scientific exploration and protected under the Antarctic Treaty.

这个小岛，如同其他南极大陆，专门用于科考，受到南极条约保护。

An ice shelf is a large floating sheet of ice permanently attached to a landmass.

冰架是永久附着陆地上的块巨大的漂浮冰层。

It's believed the emergence of landmass began roughly 4 billion years ago.

也就是陆地上升时期大约始于40亿年前。

Eventually, the landmass will break right off, giving birth to a brand new ocean.

最终，这片地块分裂，孕片崭新的海洋。

Roughly 70% of Earth's surface is water, and much of its landmass is unpopulated.

因为大约70%的地球表面都是水，而即便是陆地，也还是有很多地方是无人居住的。

The life that was hit the hardest was that lived on the smaller landmasses.

受到最大打击的命是活较小陆块之上的那些。

When an ocean plate collides with another ocean plate or a plate bearing the thick crust of continental landmasses, the thinner of the two plates bends and slides under the other.

当片大洋板块与另块大洋板块，或是片承载着厚重岩层的大陆板块相撞，那么薄的那片板块弯曲滑入另片板块下方。

The Southern Ocean, which girds the planet in the latitudes above Antarctica and below the other continents, has the worst weather in the world because its waters circulate without any landmass to slow them down.

南大洋环绕着地球，纬度南极洲以上，其他大陆以下，这里有世界上最恶劣的天气，因为它的海水循环不经过陆地。

They expanded their border all the way up to here where they decided to build a wall that would stretch across the whole landmass from sea to sea.

他们把边界直扩大到这里，他们决定这里修建道横跨整个大陆的墙，从这片海延伸到那片海。

Although textbooks give confident-looking representations of ancient landmasses with names like Laurasia, Gondwana, Rodinia, and Pangaea, these are sometimes based on conclusions that don't altogether hold up.

虽然教科书上好像很有把握地列了古代的陆块，什么劳拉古陆呀，冈瓦纳大陆呀，罗迪尼亚大陆呀，泛大陆呀，但它们有时候是以不完全能成立的结论为基础的。

Africa would lose by far the least landmass if all the ice melted, but that doesn't mean lots of well populated places wouldn't be in peril.

如果所有的冰融化的话，非洲失去的土地是最少的，但这并不意味着很多人口稠密的地方不处于危险之中。

Take a tour from the harbor to Hashima Island, an eerie landmass which was once home to miners and their families.

参加游览，从港口搭船至端岛，这块岛屿相当奇妙，过去曾是矿工及其家人的落脚处。

Ancient Chinese envisioned the earth as a square surrounded by the sea on all four sides, with zhongguo signifying the central country within that landmass.

古代中国人将地球想象成四面环海的正方形，而“中国”指的是这片陆地中央的国家。

But this domestication happened in different kinds of cats, around 5300 years ago, on the other side of this huge landmass.

不过这种驯化不同种的猫中，大约5300年前这片巨大陆地的另边。

Trees and vegetation currently cover over 50% of Singapore's landmass, reducing the need for air conditioning and encouraging low-pollution transportation.

目前，树木和植被覆盖了新加坡 50％ 以上的陆地，减少了对空调的需求，并鼓励了低污染的交通运输方式。

Gondwanax means " lord of Gondwana." The name suggests the Gondwana landmass in the southern area of the supercontinent Pangaea.

Gondwanax的意思是“冈瓦纳之主”。这个名字表明冈瓦纳大陆位于泛大陆的南部地区。

Historians estimated the empire once ruled more than 400 million people and had 25 percent of the earth's landmass.

历史学家估计，这个帝国曾经统治着超过4亿人口，拥有地球25%的陆地。

We are the countries of the continent of Europe, the northwestern portion of the large landmass called Eurasia.

我们是欧洲大陆的国家，位于亚欧大陆的西北部。

During that period, most of the world's big landmasses were connected in what scientists call Pangea.

此期间，世界上大部分大片陆地都连接科学家所谓的盘古大陆上。

The larger the landmass, the less of impact these change have.

地域越广，这种变化的影响越小。