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noun - an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle
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ANTARCTICA - Antarctica (UK: or , US: ( listen)) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic regio...
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| 1959: 12 countries including the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. sign a treaty to keep this continent a scientific preserve |
| U.S. explorer Charles Wilkes was the first to designate this a continent, & has a land there named for him |
| Mountain ranges on this continent include the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Alexandra, and Queen Maud |
| Britain's territory on this continent has no permanent residents & has been governed out of the Falklands |
| Guinness lists Commonwealth Bay on this southern continent as the world's windiest place |
| Mount Erebus in this continent's Victoria Land region was discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 |
| Bees are found on every continent but this one |
| In 1908 Ernest Henry Shackleton printed the first book on this continent |
| The world's largest glacier is on this continent |
| In 1935 Lincoln Ellsworth became the 1st man to fly across this continent |
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| an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep |
| the continent around the South Pole |
| A continent round the South Pole, situated mainly within the Antarctic Circle and almost entirely covered by ice sheets. Its exploitation is governed by an international treaty of 1959, which was renewed in 1991. |
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Antarctica (UK: or , US: ( listen)) 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 14,000,000 square kilometres (5,400,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages 1.9 km (1.2 mi; 6,200 ft) in thickness, which extends to all but the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula. * Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 in) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached 89.2 °C (128.6 °F) (or even 94.7 °C as measured from space), though the average for the third quarter (the coldest p |