How many antarcticas are there?

Answer 1

Antarctica, the fifth largest continent on earth is covered -- 98% of it -- by an ice sheet. As gravity pulls the ice that flows off glaciers and ice tongues form in open sea water, the wave action breaks off the tongue and the ice floats away as an iceberg. This action takes tens of thousands of years.

The numbers of icebergs are innumerable: icebergs vary in mass from the size of a sedan to the size of New York's Manhattan Island. They float in the Southern Ocean and do not qualify as icebergs until they are wholly contained in sea water.

Answer 2

Lots about Antarctica is unknown because 98% of it is covered with an ice sheet Parts of the ice sheet have been named as glaciers, some remain unnamed.

The continent is about as large as USA and Mexico, combined, and most of it is yet to be explored.

Giving you a number of named glaciers belies the fact that so many glaciers are unnamed, and potentially undiscovered.

Answer 3

There is only one continent named Antarctica, but there is the Antarctic region, the exact boundaries which remain undefined. Generally, the Antarctic region, however, lies south of the Antarctic Circle and includes the continent of Antarctica.

Answer 4

There is only one Antarctica. You're probably getting confused with arctic and antarctic

Answer 5

Continents don't have oceans in them, but every continent borders at least one ocean. Antarctica is completely surrounded by the Southern Ocean according to Wikipedia.