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Elephant Island, an Uncommon card
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 79,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Elephant Island quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Elephant Island card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is within the Antarctic claims of ______, Chile and the United Kingdom.
Answer
Argentina. It is within the Antarctic claims of Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom. From the Elephant Island article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bracken. Bracken 73 · Clostridium 67 · Vinson Massif 63 · Elephant Island 60 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Vinson Massif. Vinson Massif 140,000 · Dhaulagiri 110,000 · Elephant Island 79,000 · Clostridium 62,000 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 island is situated 245 kilometres north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, 1,253 kilometres west-southwest of South Georgia, 935 kilometres south of the Falkland Islands, and 885 kilometres southeast of Cape Horn.
- It is within the Antarctic claims of Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom.
- The Brazilian Antarctic Program maintains a shelter on the island, Goeldi, and formerly had another supporting the work of up to six researchers each during the summer.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Elephant Island article was read about 79,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Elephant Island
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, Elephant Island (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geologica, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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