What is Antarctic plate?
[[File:AntarcticPlate-sr.png|250px|thumb|The area covered by the Antarctic plate.]] The '''Antarctic plate''' is [[Plate tectonics|tectonic region]] that is located in [[Antarctica]], [[south pole]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=DeMets|first1=Charles|last2=Gordon|first2=Richard G.|last3=Argus|first3=Donald F.|date=April 2010|title=Geologically current plate motions|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2009.04491.x|journal=Geophysical Journal International|volume=181|issue=1|pages=1–80|doi=10.1111/j.1365-246x.2009.04491.x|bibcode=2010GeoJI.181....1D|issn=0956-540X}}</ref> The Antarctic plate surrounded spreading centers at the oceanic edges of large neighboring plates. These include the [[Pacific plate|Pacific]], [[Nazca plate|Nazca]], [[South American plate|South American]], [[African plate|African]], and [[Australian Plate|Australian]] plates. The smaller [[Scotia plate|scotia]], [[South Sandwich plate|South Sandwich]], and [[Shetland plate|Shetland]] Plates are considered to be part of Antarctic region and one of the Earth's seven major tectonics plate.<ref>{{Cite web|last=agimarc|date=2017-08-09|title=Antarctica 1 – Introduction to Antarctica's Volcanoes|url=https://volcanohotspot.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/antarctica-1-introduction-to-antarcticas-volcanoes/|access-date=2020-10-10|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Tectonic history: into the deep freeze|url=https://discoveringantarctica.org.uk/oceans-atmosphere-landscape/ice-land-and-sea/tectonic-history-into-the-deep-freeze/|access-date=2020-10-10|website=Discovering Antarctica|language=en-GB}}</ref> It is moving at speeds varying from 4 to 20 mm/year.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kamp|first1=Peter J. J.|last2=Fitzgerald|first2=Paul G.|date=1987|title=Geologic constraints on the Cenozoic Antarctica-Australia-Pacific relative plate motion circuit|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1987)15<694:gcotca>2.0.co;2|journal=Geology|volume=15|issue=8|pages=694|doi=10.1130/0091-7613(1987)15<694:gcotca>2.0.co;2|bibcode=1987Geo....15..694K|issn=0091-7613}}</ref> Th