Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. Situated in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million km², it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America; in turn, Europe and Australia are smaller.
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- as a reference to Antarctica. Over the following decades, geographers used phrases such as "the Antarctic Continent".
- 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.
- A “cross-section” of the Antarctic continent. ... In 1982, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources was added to it.
- Antarctica is a continent because underneath all of the ice and snow is a landmass that sits on the Antarctic tectonic plate.
- Early penetration of this Antarctic (or Southern) Ocean, as it has been called, in the search for fur seals led in 1820 to the discovery of the continent.
- It lies in the Antarctic Circle and is surrounded by Southern Ocean. It is known as the coldest, windiest, driest and least populous continent of the world.
- The climate is continental. ... The Antarctic Ice Sheet almost completely covers the continent and is the largest contiguous mass of ice on Earth.
- Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. Situated in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic Circle...
- 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.
- The Antarctic is a continent surrounded by water and a shifting population that can rise to about 10,000 in summer and falls to some 1,000 in winter.
