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The small amount of snow that does fall does not melt but builds up over hundreds and thousands. Most of antarctica is covered by the antarctic ice sheet,. Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on earth.

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Despite its massive size, antarctica has no. Antarctica is the most inhospitable place on the planet. 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 continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide.

The antarctic ice sheet contains about 7.2 million cubic miles (30 million cubic kilometers) in an area just under. It is the coldest, highest, driest and windiest continent on earth. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they head there with scientists trying to gauge the dangers. Antarctica is considered a desert because it receives very little rain or snowfall.

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. Visit the definitions and notes page to view a description of each topic. Antarctica is a place of extremes. It is a continent surrounded by the southern ocean, situated over the south pole and almost entirely within the antarctic circle.

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