Antarctica

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Map of Antarctica (de facto borders)Antarctica highlighted among its neighbouring countries, with borders drawn as Natural Earth shows them: according to who controls the territory. Hover a neighbour to see its name.Scale at the country's latitude1,000 km
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km². Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km.

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The description on this page is shortened from “Antarctica” on Wikipedia, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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