Posted by : Muhammad Khalid
Saturday 2 August 2014
Antarcticais Earth's
southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in
the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic
Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km
2,
it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America,
and South America. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia.
About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1.9 kilometres
in thickness, which extends to all but
the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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