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For Australia and New Zealand, see Australasia. Antarctica ( / ænˈtɑːrktɪkə / ⓘ) [note 1] is Earth 's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean ), it contains the geographic South Pole.
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- History of Antarctica
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- Antarctic Treaty System
A 2006 satellite composite image of Antarctica. The...
- Geography of Antarctica
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar...
- Tourism in Antarctica
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- Onyx
The Onyx River is an Antarctic meltwater stream which flows...
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- Lake Vostok
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- Territorial Claims in Antarctica
A map of the Antarctic region, including the Antarctic Convergence and the 60th parallel south The Antarctic Plate. The Antarctic (/ æ n ˈ t ɑːr t ɪ k / or / æ n ˈ t ɑːr k t ɪ k /, American English also / æ n t ˈ ɑːr t ɪ k / or / æ n t ˈ ɑːr k t ɪ k /; commonly / æ ˈ n ɑːr t ɪ k /) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North ...
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Antarctica. Antarctica is the Earth 's southernmost and least populous continent. It is on the South Pole. It is almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle. Around Antarctica is the Southern Ocean. It is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. [2] About 99% of Antarctica is covered by ice.
- Overall: 14,000,000 km² (5,400,000 sq mi), Ice-free: 280,000 km² (100,000 sq mi), Ice-covered: 13,720,000 km² (5,300,000 sq mi)
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The Antarctic Convergence is an uneven line of latitude where cold, northward-flowing Antarctic waters meet the warmer waters of the world’s oceans. The Antarctic covers approximately 20 percent of the Southern Hemisphere. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent in terms of total area. (It is larger than both Oceania and Europe.)
The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth. The continent also is not wet but just very snowy and cold ( It has a dry climate ), averaging 166 mm (6.5 in) of precipitation per year. Snow rarely melts on most parts of the continent, and, after being compressed, becomes the glacier ice that makes up the ice sheet.
