The Antarctic ice sheet stores about 70% of the earth's fresh water and about 90% of the earth's ice. The ice sheet is not considered a source of water.
The number you want is about 70%.
although it is one of the biggest deserts, antarctica holds 90% of the worlds ice!
It contains 90% of the World's ice and 70% of Earth's Fresh Water.
Seventy one percent of earth's surface is water -- salt water. The ice sheet in Antarctica holds about seventy percent of earth's fresh water.
None. Antarctica is a continent, 98% of which is covered by ice.
70 % is water and 90% is ice
95% of the worlds gold comes from Africa
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Antarctica's fresh water cache is about 70% of all the fresh water on earth -- frozen in its ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
Antarctica's ice sheet contains about 70% of the earth's fresh water.
There isn't much drinking water because almost all of the water is frozen. The snow can be thawed to give fresh water. The rainfall in Antarctica is very low.