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3 days ago · 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. It is divided into East Antarctica (largely composed of a high ice-covered plateau) and West Antarctica (an archipelago of ice-covered mountainous islands).
- History
Antarctica - Exploration, Wildlife, Ice: Many nations were...
- Glaciers and Seas
Antarctica - Glaciers, Seas, Ice: Antarctica provides the...
- Biological Resources
Antarctica - Wildlife, Marine Life, Ecosystems: Marine...
- The Antarctic Treaty
Antarctica - Treaty, Continent, Wildlife: With the ending of...
- Animal Life
Antarctica - Penguins, Seals, Whales: The native land fauna...
- Plant Life
Antarctica - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: The cold desert...
- Physical Geography
Antarctica, with an average elevation of about 7,200 feet...
- Discovery of The Antarctic Poles
Antarctica - Exploration, Ice, Wildlife: National and...
- History
1 day ago · The ice dome known as Dome Argus in East Antarctica is the highest Antarctic ice feature, at 4,091 metres (13,422 ft). It is one of the world's coldest and driest places—temperatures there may reach as low as −90 °C (−130 °F), and the annual precipitation is 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in).
4 days ago · On September 10, 2023, Antarctic sea ice bottomed out at 1.75 million square kilometers (676,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average. Sea ice extent also hit a record low in the summer of 2023 for a second year in a row. In fact, 2017, 2018, and 2022 all hit record lows. Now scientists are eager to know if climate change has finally ...
2 days ago · West Antarctic ice formed 7 million years after East. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute found the permanent glaciation of Antarctic ice activated roughly 34 ...
5 days ago · And yet, within only a few years, the trend has reversed. Antarctic sea ice area reached a satellite era record low in 2016, followed by a new record low in 2022, and then another record low in ...
3 days ago · By far the coldest continent, Antarctica has winter temperatures that range from −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C), the world’s lowest recorded temperature, measured at Vostok Station (Russia) on July 21, 1983, on the high inland ice sheet to −76 °F (−60 °C) near sea level.
3 days ago · Antarctica - Glaciers, Seas, Ice: Antarctica provides the best available picture of the probable appearance 20,000 years ago of northern North America under the great Laurentide Ice Sheet. Some scientists contend that the initial glacier that thickened over time to become the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet originated in the Gamburtsev Mountains ...
