https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Template%3APOTD_protected 2026-04-19T08:36:54Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.36.2 https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14522&oldid=prev 2026-03-19T13:39:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:39, 19 March 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">San</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Joaquin-Kit-Fox-Den</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dictator</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sitting</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>'''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">San Joaquin kit fox</del>]]''' is the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">smallest member </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dog family </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">North America and one </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">several endangered species that lives </del>within the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">borders </del>of the [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Colony </del>of Calsahara]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In 1990</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its population </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">estimated to be 7,000</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This subspecies is still endangered, </del>after <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nearly 50 years of being on the Endangered Species List. Today</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">much of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">kit fox's remaining habitat is extremely fragmented, movement corridors are degraded or blocked, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only a few large areas of native grasslands remain on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">San Joaquin Valley</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perimeter in the [[Carrizo Plain]]</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hooverville</ins>]]''' is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a city in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Colony </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Calsahara]]. It is </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only permanent structure </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the entire colony. The [[Count of Dendtler]] is the Mayor </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hooverville. It lies </ins>within the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Barony of Bastanchury in the [[Principality </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bohemia]]. During </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Invasion of Calsahara|Liberation </ins>of Calsahara]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hooverville </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">considered a vital target for the [[Westarctican Royal Guards]]</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Shortly </ins>after <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Otisburg]] was overrun</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Royal Guards marched on Hooverville </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">victory was proclaimed from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">house</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">broken steps</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Duke Travis</del>]]&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Prince Dinny</ins>]]&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14478&oldid=prev 2026-01-29T02:46:12Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:46, 29 January 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Aigues</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mortes Walls</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">San</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Joaquin-Kit-Fox-Den</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Principality of Aigues-Mortes</del>]]''' is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">micronation</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">created </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">promote and support local initiatives of the eponymous city</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">located in Southern France</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">23km east </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Montpellier</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Princely Couple (His Serene Highness</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sovereign-Prince Jean-Pierre IV and Her Serene Highness, Princess Olivia-Eugénie) work together with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">citizens and the Princely Grand Council</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to create and organize events that </del>are <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both fun </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">windows </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">local talents and creativity</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">San Joaquin kit fox</ins>]]''' is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the smallest member of the dog family in North America and one of several endangered species that lives within the borders of the </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Colony of Calsahara</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In 1990, its population was estimated </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be 7</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">000. This subspecies is still endangered</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after nearly 50 years </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being on the Endangered Species List</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Today</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">much of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">kit fox's remaining habitat is extremely fragmented</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">movement corridors </ins>are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">degraded or blocked, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only a few large areas </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">native grasslands remain on the San Joaquin Valley's perimeter in the [[Carrizo Plain]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During [[MicroCon 2025]], it was announced that the Principality of Aigues-Mortes would serve as host of [[MicroCon EU 2027]].</del></div></td><td colspan="2"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Grand Duke Travis]]</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marc Ryckaert (MJJR)</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td colspan="2"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14419&oldid=prev 2026-01-01T22:25:53Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:25, 1 January 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Backer Islands GPS</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Aigues-Mortes Walls</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Backer Islands</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">chain of small islands at the south side of </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Cranton Bay</del>]]. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">islands trend northwest for 22 kilometers </del>(<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">12 nmi</del>) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[ice shelf]] which forms </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">southern limit </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the bay</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Principality of Aigues-Mortes</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </ins>a [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">micronation</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">created to promote and support local initiatives of the eponymous city, located in Southern France, 23km east of Montpellier</ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Princely Couple </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His Serene Highness, Sovereign-Prince Jean-Pierre IV and Her Serene Highness, Princess Olivia-Eugénie</ins>) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">work together with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">citizens and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Princely Grand Council, to create and organize events that are both fun and windows </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">local talents and creativity</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 2011</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scientists from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">POLar Earth</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">observing NETwork (POLENET) traveled to the Backer Islands via a Twin Otter aircraft and installed a GPS monitoring site. This equipment is used to remotely monitor GPS and seismic data that will help scientists determine trends in ice sheet movement and other geophysical phenomena</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During [[MicroCon 2025]]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it was announced that </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Principality of Aigues</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mortes would serve as host of [[MicroCon EU 2027]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ellie Boyce </del>(<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">UNAVCO</del>)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marc Ryckaert </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">MJJR</ins>)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14414&oldid=prev 2025-12-22T18:28:55Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:28, 22 December 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Duke Travis</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Backer Islands GPS</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">title </del>'''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Duke of Westarctica</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was created by Travis McHenry in June 2004 as part </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transition </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Achaean Territory of Antarctica|Achaean Territory</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from a [[Micronations|new country project]] to a [[sovereignty|sovereign]] nation</del>. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">legal basis </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the creation of the title is found in </del>the [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Ducal Mandate</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, as well as </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Achaean Royal Charter]]</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Backer Islands</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are a chain </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">small islands at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">south side </ins>of [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Cranton Bay</ins>]]. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">islands trend northwest </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">22 kilometers (12 nmi) from </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ice shelf</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which forms the southern limit of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bay</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 2011, scientists from the POLar Earth-observing NETwork (POLENET) traveled to the Backer Islands via a Twin Otter aircraft and installed a GPS monitoring site. This equipment is used to remotely monitor GPS and seismic data that will help scientists determine trends in ice sheet movement and other geophysical phenomena.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gabriela Alvarez</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ellie Boyce (UNAVCO)</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14406&oldid=prev 2025-11-29T17:42:25Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:42, 29 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">King Penguin Chick</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Duke Travis</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">king penguin</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is a large species </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[penguin]], second only to </del>the [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emperor penguin</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in size. King penguins eat small fish, mainly lanternfish, and squid. They are less reliant on </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">krill</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and other crustaceans than most </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Southern Ocean</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">predators. On foraging trips king penguins repeatedly dive to over 100 meters (300 ft), and have been recorded at depths greater than 300 meters (1,000 ft)</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">King penguins breed on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subantarctic islands at </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">northern reaches of </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Antarctica</del>]], <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">South Georgia, and other temperate islands of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">region. King penguins do not live or breed in </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica</del>]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">title </ins>'''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Duke of Westarctica</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was created by Travis McHenry in June 2004 as part of the transition </ins>of the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Achaean Territory of Antarctica|Achaean Territory</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from a </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Micronations|new country project</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to a </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sovereignty|sovereign</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nation</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The legal basis for </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">creation of the title is found in </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Ducal Mandate</ins>]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as well as </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Achaean Royal Charter</ins>]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Liam Quinn from Canada</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gabriela Alvarez</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14350&oldid=prev 2025-10-17T16:14:32Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:14, 17 October 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Orientation to Fosdick Mountains</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">King Penguin Chick</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fosdick Mountains</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are an east–west trending mountain range with marked serrate outlines, standing along the south side </del>of [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Balchen Glacier</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">head of </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Block Bay</del>]], <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ford Ranges</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica</del>]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The mountains were discovered by </del>the [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Byrd Antarctic Expedition</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in 1929</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">named by </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Richard E. Byrd</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for Raymond B. Fosdick, who became president of the Rockefeller Foundation</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">king penguin</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is a large species </ins>of [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">penguin</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, second only to </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emperor penguin</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in size. King penguins eat small fish</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mainly lanternfish, and squid. They are less reliant on </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">krill</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and other crustaceans than most </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Southern Ocean</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">predators</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On foraging trips king penguins repeatedly dive to over 100 meters (300 ft), and have been recorded at depths greater than 300 meters (1,000 ft). King penguins breed on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subantarctic islands at the northern reaches of </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Antarctica</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, South Georgia</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other temperate islands of the region. King penguins do not live or breed in </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica</ins>]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Csiddoway</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Liam Quinn from Canada</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14292&oldid=prev 2025-09-12T16:52:40Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:52, 12 September 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Weddell seals-Diving</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Orientation to Fosdick Mountains</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Weddell seal</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is a relatively large and abundant true seal </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a circumpolar distribution surrounding </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Antarctica</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Weddell seals have </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most southerly distribution </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any mammal</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a habitat that extends as far south as McMurdo Sound (at 77°S)</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Because of its abundance, relative accessibility, and ease of approach </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">humans, it is the best-studied of </del>the Antarctic <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seals. An estimated 800</del>,<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">000 individuals remain today. Weddell seals gather in small groups around cracks </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">holes in the </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ice</del>]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">These animals can also be found in large groups on ice attached to the continent. In the winter</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they stay in the water to avoid blizzards, with only their heads poking through breathing holes in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ice. These seals are often observed lying on their sides, when on land. They are very docile and placid animals and can be approached easily</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fosdick Mountains</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are an east–west trending mountain range </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">marked serrate outlines, standing along the south side of </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Balchen Glacier</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">head </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Block Bay]]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the [[Ford Ranges]] of [[Westarctica]]</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The mountains were discovered </ins>by the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Byrd </ins>Antarctic <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Expedition]] in 1929</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">named by </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Richard E. Byrd</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for Raymond B</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fosdick</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who became president of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rockefeller Foundation</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Changehali</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Csiddoway</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14274&oldid=prev 2025-08-28T16:25:10Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:25, 28 August 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caloplaca.saxicola</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Weddell seals-Diving</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>'''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caloplaca saxicola</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>''' is a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">small bright orange crustose </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lichen</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that grows on rock all over </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">world</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including [[Antarctica]]</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">commonly called rock firedot lichen</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jewel lichen or rock jewel lichen</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''C. saxicola'' is one of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lichen</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s </del>found in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Westarctica]]</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and is likely </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most southerly plant life</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The [[Caloplaca Hills]] were named for this lichen</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which grows </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the rocks there</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>'''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Weddell seal</ins>]]''' is a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relatively large and abundant true seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Antarctica</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Weddell seals have </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most southerly distribution of any mammal</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with a habitat that extends as far south as McMurdo Sound (at 77°S)</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Because of its abundance, relative accessibility, and ease of approach by humans, it </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the best-studied of the Antarctic seals. An estimated 800</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">000 individuals remain today</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Weddell seals gather in small groups around cracks and holes in </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ice</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. These animals can also be </ins>found in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">large groups on ice attached to the continent. In the winter, they stay in the water to avoid blizzards</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with only their heads poking through breathing holes in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ice</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">These seals are often observed lying on their sides</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when </ins>on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">land. They are very docile and placid animals and can be approached easily</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">James K. Lindsey</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Changehali</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14260&oldid=prev 2025-08-20T15:29:29Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:29, 20 August 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica Display</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caloplaca.saxicola</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica|Westarctica's</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">display table at </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">MicroCon 2025</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Westarctica has sent a delegation to every iteration of </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">MicroCon</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since 2015</del>. [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grand Duke Travis</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(along with </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">President Kevin Baugh</del>]] and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Adrianne Baugh]]) </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">one of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very few individuals to have attended every MicroCon convention, including </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">MicroCon EU 2023</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in Ypres</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Belgium</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>'''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caloplaca saxicola</ins>]]'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' is a small bright orange crustose </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lichen</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that grows on rock all over the world, including </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Antarctica</ins>]]. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It is commonly called rock firedot lichen, jewel lichen or rock jewel lichen. ''C. saxicola'' is one of the few </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lichen</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s found in </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>and is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">likely </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most southerly plant life. The </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caloplaca Hills</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were named for this lichen</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which grows on the rocks there</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Grand Duke Travis]]</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photographer: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">James K. Lindsey</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Westarctica https://www.westarctica.wiki/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected&diff=14231&oldid=prev 2025-08-13T03:21:19Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:21, 13 August 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{| role=&quot;presentation&quot; style=&quot;margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; &quot;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Slowjamastan-california-free-sign</del>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 0.9em 0 0;&quot; | [[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica Display</ins>.jpg|300px|thumb]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|style=&quot;padding:0 6px 0 0&quot;|</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>'''[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Republic of Slowjamastan</del>]]''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is a North American </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">micronation</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">landlocked within Imperial County, Southern California</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It covers 11.07 acres of land, parallel </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">California State Route 78, between the towns </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ocotillo Wells </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westmorland. Slowjamastan was founded on 18 August 2021 by nationally syndicated radio personality Randy &quot;R Dub!&quot; Williams who would immediately declare himself Sultan </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Slowjamastan. While no physical land was in possession when </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nation was founded</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on 3 September 2021</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Williams entered into an agreement to purchase eleven acres of land. On 4 October 2021, Williams completed escrow and closed the deal on his land purchase</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica|Westarctica's</ins>]]''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">display table at </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">MicroCon 2025</ins>]]. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Westarctica has sent a delegation </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">every iteration </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[MicroCon]] since 2015. [[Grand Duke Travis]] (along with [[President Kevin Baugh]] </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Adrianne Baugh]]) is one </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very few individuals to have attended every MicroCon convention</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including [[MicroCon EU 2023]] in Ypres</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Belgium</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Photo credit</del>: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Slowjamastan</del>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Photographer</ins>: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Grand Duke Travis]]</ins>&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Images|'''(More Images)''']]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;div class=&quot;potd-recent&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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