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，专门用于科考，受到南极条保护。

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

冰架是永久附着地上一块巨漂浮冰层。

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

也就是地上升时期始于40亿年前。

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

最终，这片地块会分裂，孕育出一片崭新海洋。

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

因为70%地球表面都是水，而即便是地，也还是有很多地方是无人居住。

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

受到最打击生命是生活较小块之上那些。

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.

当一片洋板块与另一块洋板块，或是一片承载着厚重岩层板块相撞，那么薄那片板块会发生弯曲滑入另一片板块下方。

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.

南洋环绕着地球，纬度南极洲以上，其他以下，这里有世界上最恶劣天气，因为它海水循环不经过地。

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.

他们把边界一直扩到这里，他们决定这里修建一道横跨整个墙，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出了古代块，什么劳拉古呀，冈瓦纳呀，罗迪尼亚呀，泛呀，但它们有时候是以不完全能成立结论为基础。

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.

如果所有冰融化话，非洲失去土地是最少，但这并不意味着很多人口稠密地方不会处于危险之中。

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正方形，而“中国”指是这片地中央国家。

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

不过这种驯化发生不同种猫中，5300年前这片巨地另一边。

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％ 以上地，减少了对空调需求，并鼓励了低污染交通运输方式。

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

Gondwanax意思是“冈瓦纳之主”。这个名字表明冈瓦纳位于泛南部地区。

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%地。

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

我们是欧洲国家，位于亚欧西北部。

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

此期间，世界上部分片地都连接科学家所谓盘古上。

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

地域越广，这种变化影响越小。