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СКАЧАТЬ force—by occupation: commerce 36%, services 29%, construction 18%, transportation and utilities 10%, manufacturing 3%, agriculture/fishing/forestry/mining 4%

      Unemployment rate: 7% (1992 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $20.4 million

       expenditures: $23.3 million, including capital expenditures of $3.8

       million (1997 est.)

      Industries: tourism, boat building, offshore financial services

      Industrial production growth rate: 3.1% (1997 est.)

      Electricity—production: NA kWh

      Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: NA% hydro: NA% nuclear: NA% other: NA%

      Electricity—consumption: NA kWh

      Electricity—exports: NA kWh

      Electricity—imports: NA kWh

      Agriculture—products: pigeon peas, corn, sweet potatoes; sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, poultry; fish, lobsters

      Exports: $1.6 million (1997)

      Exports—commodities: lobster, fish, livestock, salt

      Exports—partners: NA

      Imports: $54.2 million (1997)

      Imports—commodities: NA

      Imports—partners: NA

      Debt—external: $8.5 million (1996)

      Economic aid—recipient: $3.5 million (1995)

      Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar (EC$) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1—2.7000 (fixed rate since 1976)

      Fiscal year: 1 April—31 March

      Communications

      Telephones: 890

      Telephone system:

       domestic: modern internal telephone system

       international: microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin

       (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 6, shortwave 1 (1998)

      Radios: 2,000 (1992 est.)

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

      Televisions: NA

      Transportation

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 105 km paved: 65 km unpaved: 40 km (1992 est.)

      Ports and harbors: Blowing Point, Road Bay

      Merchant marine: none

      Airports: 3 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways:

       total: 1

       914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with unpaved runways:

       total: 2

       under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military—note: defense is the responsibility of the UK

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes—international: none

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      @Antarctica—————

      Geography

      Location: continent mostly south of the Antarctic Circle

      Geographic coordinates: 90 00 S, 0 00 E

      Map references: Antarctic Region

      Area:

       total: 14 million sq km

       land: 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km

       ice-covered) (est.)

       note: second-smallest continent (after Australia)

      Area—comparative: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of the US

      Land boundaries: 0 km note: see entry on International disputes

      Coastline: 17,968 km

      Maritime claims: none, but see entry on International disputes

      Climate: severe low temperatures vary with latitude, elevation, and distance from the ocean; East Antarctica is colder than West Antarctica because of its higher elevation; Antarctic Peninsula has the most moderate climate; higher temperatures occur in January along the coast and average slightly below freezing

      Terrain: about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock, with average elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 meters; mountain ranges up to about 5,000 meters; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area of the continent

      Elevation extremes:

       lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m

       highest point: Vinson Massif 5,140 m

      Natural resources: none presently exploited; iron ore, chromium,

       copper, gold, nickel, platinum and other minerals, and coal and

       hydrocarbons have been found in small, uncommercial quantities

      Land use:

       arable land: 0%

       permanent crops: 0%

       permanent pastures: 0%

       forests and woodland: 0%

       other: 100% (ice 98%, barren rock 2%)

      Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1993)

      Natural hazards: katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island and isolated areas of West Antarctica; other seismic activity rare and weak

      Environment—current issues: in 1998, NASA satellite data showed that the antarctic ozone СКАЧАТЬ