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The ice sheet covering about 98% of the Antarctic continent is all above land.

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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.


How much ice is above land in kilometers in Antarctica?

20 million cubic kilometers The continent of Antarctica measures about 5.405 million sq miles (14 million km²). Ice covers about 98% of the continent. Can you do the math.


What percantage of antarctica is NOT ice?

None of Antarctica is ice. Antarctica is 100% land. The land is covered -- about 98% -- by ice, so only two percent of the land is not covered by ice.


Is Antarctica barren land?

Ninety-eight percent of the continent is covered by an ice sheet. The bare land in Antarctica is generally beach area, or nunataks -- the tops of mountain peaks that poke above the ice sheet.


What percentage of Antarctica's land is ice-free and how much is covered with icecaps?

Ice free 0% icecaps 100%


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.


What land forms or water forms make up Antarctica?

The continent of Antarctica makes up the land mass. The Antarctic region includes sub-Antarctic islands and the Southern Ocean.


What is the increase in land mass by ice in Antarctica?

Ice does not increase land mass.


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.


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.


Is there a land under Antarctica?

Antarctica is a continent, so yes: under its ice sheet, there is land.


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.