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Antarctic Peninsula, an Uncommon card
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 68,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Antarctic Peninsula quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Antarctic Peninsula card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They are joined by a ______ ice sheet.
Answer
grounded. They are joined by a grounded ice sheet. From the Antarctic Peninsula article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sundarbans. Sundarbans 83 · Fish as food 80 · Antarctic Peninsula 77 · New World vulture 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Sundarbans. Sundarbans 170,000 · New World vulture 96,000 · Antarctic Peninsula 68,000 · Arab culture 38,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The Antarctic Peninsula is part of the larger peninsula of West Antarctica, protruding 1,300 km from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of the Eklund Islands.
- Beneath the ice sheet that covers it, the Antarctic Peninsula consists of a string of bedrock islands, these are separated by deep channels whose bottoms lie at depths considerably below current sea level.
- They are joined by a grounded ice sheet.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Antarctic Peninsula article was read about 68,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Antarctic Peninsula
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Antarctic Peninsula (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
