The Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent of Antarctica can measure 27 degrees F before freezing, based on the high mineral content of the water. During the winter, the ocean water freezes, essentially doubling the size of the Antarctica.
The water temperature consistently hovers around freezing.
The ice sheet covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent, which is about as big as USA and Mexico combined.
The body of water in that part of the world is known as the Southern Ocean, the world's fourth largest at about 7.848 million square miles.
The Lambert Glacier is 250 miles wide. It is 2,500 miles long.
It is over 10,000 feet thick in the interior.
probably quite deep :)
just the ice.
Cold
The South Pole, Antarctica, holds far more ice than the Arctic. Arctic ice floats on the ocean and is no more than one metre thick. Antarctic ice is a maximum of 4.7 kilometres deep at Terre Adélie.
The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 90% of earth's ice.
Crevasse not to be confused with crevice
One hundred percent of the ice...in the Antarctic, is ice in the Antarctic.
The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest in the world with about 13.72 million sq km of permanent ice representing about 90% of the worlds ice and is over 4 km thick in places.
It is said that when the world ends there will be an Ice age that is suppossed to be coming from the antarctic under-lands and the deep sea and Ice there.
The Antarctic of course.
probably quite deep :)
Ninety-eight percent of the Antarctic continent is covered by an ice sheet.
The Antarctic Desert is a polar or ice desert.
There are no cities on the Antarctic continent. Mt Vinson is nestled deep within the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
The antarctic ice sheet in the southern hemisphere is the only true ice sheet that remains on the planet.
Yes, the Antarctic ice sheet is located in the southern hemisphere. It covers an area of around 14 million square kilometers and contains about 70% of the world's fresh water in the form of ice.
The arctic is is mostly ice. Antarctica is a continent that is included in the antarctic region.