Antarctica Project

Some Small Facts about antarctica

An ice sheet covers all but 2.4 percent of Antarctica's 14 million square kilometers.

Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest, emptiest, coldest place on earth.

At its thickest point the ice sheet is 4,776 meters deep and averages 2, 160 meters thick. This is 90 percent of all the world's ice and it is 70 percent of all the world's fresh water.

The area below 60 degrees south enjoys one long day and one long night each year. The sun sets in March and rises in October.

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