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The ice covers 13,720,000 km2 (5,300,000 sq mi) of Antarctica. This ice sheet contains over 5 million cubic miles (30 million cubic km) of ice. If it was broken up, every person on Earth would receive a piece the size of the Great Pyramid.
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∙ 12y agoThe 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.
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∙ 8y agoThe ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent contains about 70% of the earth's fresh water, and about 90% of the earth's store of ice.
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∙ 10y agoNinety-eight percent of the continent is covered with the Antarctic ice sheet.
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∙ 9y agoThe continent of Antarctica is covered -- 98% of it -- by an ice sheet which is still there.
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How much of Antarctica is solid ice?
Antarctica is 100% land. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent is solid ice.
In Antarctica a huge ice cap covers?
In Antarctica an ice sheet covers 98% of the rocky continent below.
Is ice a mineral is antarctica?
Ice in the ice sheet that covers Antarctica is free of any minerals.
What is the largest ice in antarctica?
The largest ice in Antarctica is the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
Antarctica's ice cap covers about of the continents landmass?
The ice cap on Antarctica covers a touch over 98% of that continent.
Why did antarctica turn to ice?
Antarctica did not turn to ice, but ice formed over the continent and covers about 98% of it.
Is 50 percent of Antarctica ice and snow?
Antarctica is a continent that covers 10% of the earth's surface, and it is 100% land. Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet, which covers 98% of its surface.
What dominates in Antarctica?
Antarctica is dominated by an ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
What is the largest piece of ice in the world and in Antarctica?
Antarctica is the store for 90% of the earth's ice: an ice sheet covers 98% of the continent.
How much land is in antarctica?
Antarctica is a continent of approximately 14,000,000 sq km about 99% of which is covered in ice.
What pecentage of earth's ice is Antarctica?
The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica represents about 90% of the earth's store of fresh water ice.
What does the huge ice cap that covers Antarctica contain?
Antarctica's ice sheet contains 70% of the earth's fresh water.
