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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent,
overlying the South Pole.
It is situated in the southern hemisphere,
almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle,
and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.
Antarctica area is 14,000,000 km² ,
icefree area is about 280,000 km² and
icecovered is about 13,720,000 km² that
means about 98% of Antarctica is covered by
ice.
Climate of Antarctica
Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, and
has the highest average elevation of all the continents.
The coldest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was
-89.2 °C at the Russian Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21
July 1983.
Antarctica is also extremely dry, technically a desert, whit
an average of only 166 mm of precipitation per year.
Population of Antarctica
The number of people conducting and supporting
scientific research.
The number of ...