Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size. The antarctic comprises the continent of antarctica, the kerguelen plateau, and other island territories located on the antarctic plate or south of the antarctic convergence. Dramatic and extreme changes in antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet
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Without any ice, antarctica would emerge as a giant peninsula and archipelago of mountainous islands, known as lesser antarctica, and a single large landmass about the size of australia, known as greater antarctica.
Scientists will meet in london this week to issue a stark warning
And it's going to impact us all. Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and least populated of the world’s continents It has a unique landscape, distinctive ecosystems and is one of the world’s true wildernesses It is also home to cutting edge science, unprecedented international collaboration and growing numbers of tourists.
It is almost completely covered in ice Antarctica covers the earth’s south pole Antarctica is the coldest place on earth The average temperature in the winter is minus 34.4 celsius (minus 30 degrees fahrenheit).
Antarctica was first sighted by humans just 200 years ago
Conditions are so ferocious that no human lives there permanently Instead, scientists go for few months at a time, living in specialist.