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Enderby Land is that portion of Antarctica extending from Shirase Glacier and Lutzow-Holm Bay from the west (38°30’E) to Wilma Glacier and Edward VIII Bay to the east (57°E). Enderby Land is bordered by the Cosmonauts Sea in the west and by the Sea of Cooperation in the east, both are part of the Southern Ocean. Nearly 1,500 km2 of Enderby Land is ice-free. Two research stations—Molodezhnaya (Russia, 67º40' S, 45º51' E) and Syowa (Japan, 69°00’S, 39°35’E)—are established in Enderby Land. The dominant soil taxa along the coast are Haploturbels/Haplorthels, Aquiturbels/Aquorthels, and previously unclassified ornithogenic soils and endolithic microsoils. Lithic subgroups both for Haploturbels and Gelorthents (permafrost > 1 m without cryoturbations) are predominant in the territories with shallow rock contact.

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Acknowledgements

The authors commemorate the inspiration of Russian soil studies in Antarctica––David Gilichinsky. We kindly acknowledge the members of the Russian Antarctic, especially Valery Lukin and Valery Kiselev for invaluable help in conducting the investigations. We also thank Dr. D. Konyushkov for assistance in the preparation of the text.

Investigations were partly financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects 12-04-01815, 12-04-01457).

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  1. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017, Staromonetny 29, Moscow, Russia

    Andrey V. Dolgikh, Nikita S. Mergelov & Sergey V. Goryachkin

  2. Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290, Institutskaya 2, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia

    Andrey A. Abramov & Alexey V. Lupachev

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Dolgikh, A.V., Mergelov, N.S., Abramov, A.A., Lupachev, A.V., Goryachkin, S.V. (2015). Soils of Enderby Land. In: Bockheim, J. (eds) The Soils of Antarctica. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05497-1_4

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