Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and 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 14,200,000 square kilometres (5,500,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent and nearly twice the size of Australia.
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- Additionally, no other continent has more ice than Antarctic — this massive expanse of frozen water covers 98% of its surface area!
- as a reference to Antarctica. Over the following decades, geographers used phrases such as "the Antarctic Continent".
- The future of Antarctic exploration is bright, with scientists and researchers continuing to make important discoveries about the continent.
- In order to form a legal framework for countries' activities on the continent, an Antarctic Treaty was negotiated that neither denies nor recognizes existing territorial...
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- ...of Antarctica move from west to east in a clockwise rotation around the continent in a movement called the West Wind Drift, or the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
- About 74,000 people visited the continent during the 2019-2020 season, according to the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty.
- Yet, The White Continent of Antarctica remains interesting as a beautiful, large and in many ways unique place that is not quite like any other of the 7 continents.
- Antarctica is a unique continent in that it does not have a native human population. ... The continent of Antarctica makes up most of the Antarctic region.
- In 1773, James Cook and his crew crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time. Although he discovered new islands, he did not sight the continent itself.
