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Is Antarctica made up of more ice or land?
Antarctica is a continent which is 100% land. However, 98% of the continent is covered by an ice sheet. So there is more land than ice.
How much of Antarctica's land mass is sea ice?
Antarctica is a continent that covers 10% of the earth's surface. The continent is covered by ice -- about 98% of the continent in fact. This means that the continent is the continent; the ice is the ice, and zero percent of the continent is ice, but 100% of the ice is ice.
Why is Antarctica not considered as the ocean?
Antarctica is the name of this southern-most continent. It is covered by polar ice. You might be confused by the fact that there is no land under the polar ice in the north. The Arctic is the name of an ocean; Antarctica is the name of a continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean.
Is the south pole land?
Its ice on top on land; the continent Antarctica.
What amount of Antarctica's land is hidden beneath ice?
About 98% of the continent is covered in ice.
What percent of Antarctica is land and what percent is ice?
One hundred percent of Antarctica is land. The continent is about 98% covered by ice.
How much ice is above land in antarctica?
The ice sheet covering about 98% of the Antarctic continent is all above land.
What land lies east of the ross ice shelf?
The land to which the Ross Ice Shelf is attached on three sides is the Antarctic continent.
Is Antarctica primarly ice or land?
Antarctica is a continent that covers 10% of the earth's surface -- land. Ninety-eight percent of it is covered with an ice sheet -- ice.
How much of Antarctica is solid ice?
Antarctica is 100% land. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent is solid ice.
What was the name of the one continent?
Pangea was the name of the single land-mass continent.
Is the Antarctic icecap closer to Wilkes or Queen Maud land?
The ice sheet that you mention covers 98% of the Antarctic continent, and it covers both areas you name.
