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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
About PINTOMAP Lake Vostok (Antarctica)Lake Vostok (the name comes from the Russian word for "east") is the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Earth's southern-most continent— Antarctica. It is located at 77° S 105° E, beneath Russia's Vostok Station, 4000 metres (13,000 feet) under the surface of the central Antarctic ice sheet. Vostok Station (Antarctica)Vostok Station is a Russian research station located near the Geomagnetic South Pole (see South Pole), at the center of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Extreme points of Antarctica (Antarctica)* Tallest Mountain in Antarctica is Vinson Massif. Height: 4,892 metres (16,050 feet) List of research stations in Antarctica (Antarctica)A number of governments maintain permanent research stations throughout Antarctica. Many of the stations are staffed around the year. Pole of Cold (Antarctica)The Poles of Cold are the places in the Northern and Southern hemispheres where the lowest air temperature was recorded. | ||