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Visit the definitions and notes page to view a description of each topic. Without any ice, antarctica would emerge as a giant peninsula and archipelago of mountainous islands, known as lesser antarctica, and a single large landmass about the size of australia,. The antarctic ice sheet contains about 7.2 million cubic miles (30 million cubic kilometers) in an area just under.
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Antarctica is considered a desert because it receives very little rain or snowfall. Despite its massive size, antarctica has no. It is the coldest, highest, driest and windiest continent on earth.
The small amount of snow that does fall does not melt but builds up over hundreds and thousands.
Situated almost entirely south of the antarctic circle and surrounded by the southern ocean. [18][19] the vast majority of antarctica is. Situated in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the antarctic circle, antarctica is surrounded by the southern. Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size.
Antarctica is divided into west antarctica and east antarctica by the transantarctic mountains, which stretch from victoria land to the ross sea. Antarctica is a place of extremes. Antarctica is earth 's southernmost continent, overlying the south pole. Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on earth.
