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The Antarctic Ice Sheet consists of about 13.72 million sq km of permanent ice representing 90% of the world's ice.

According to Wikipedia, at the South Pole -- 90 degrees South Latitude, the ice is 9,301 feet thick -- that is, above sea level.

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