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The continent Antarctica.
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Yes, there is a landmass in the Antarctic known as Antarctica. It is the southernmost continent and is covered by an ice sheet that holds about 70% of the world's fresh water.
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What is a big landmass called?
A big landmass is called a continent.
What is the name of this landmass 2million years?
The landmass is called Pangea.
What is the wegener's name for one large landmass?
The Wegener's name for one large landmass is "Pangaea."
What is the landmass of the US called?
The landmass of the US is called North America.
Which region has no landmass under ice?
The region that has no landmass under ice is Australia. Australia is a continent that does not have any permanent ice covering its landmass.
What was the major difference about the arctic and the antarctic?
The Antarctic is a landmass: the Arctic is sea ice.
What Asian country was a separate continent?
India. Millions of years ago, it split off from the Australian-Antarctic landmass and moved north, where it collided with Asia.
How much of earth do Arctic and Antarctic occupy?
Technically, both polar regions -- above the Arctic Circle and below the Antarctic Circle -- are equal. However, Antarctica occupies the larger landmass, of the two, covering about 10% of the earth's surface.
What is the lifstyle of the Antarctic?
How can a landmass have a lifestyle? No one lives there permanently, it's very hostile with no native people, flora or fauna (the birds and penguins that do live there migrated from elsewhere). It's the only landmass on the planet that was not colonised by humans thousands of years ago. It can't easily support life, expeditions that go there have to be very well prepared.
Which continent is closest to the tip of south America?
You may be thinking of the Antarctic continent, with its northern-most tip -- the Antarctic Peninsula.From Wikipedia:"The 800-kilometre (500 mi) wide passage between Cape Horn and Livingston Island is the shortest crossing from Antarctica to any other landmass."
How close is Argentina to the Antarctic?
From the Wikipedia page for Drake Passage: "The 800-kilometre (500 mi) wide passage between Cape Horn and Livingston Island is the shortest crossing from Antarctica to any other landmass. "
What countries lies south of the continent of Australia?
There is no country directly south of Australia, although Chille and Argentina are further south than it. The only landmass directly south of Australia is the Antarctic continent, which has no permanent residents.
What was the name given to the original landmass?
The original landmass was called Pangaea. It is the supercontinent that existed about 335 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we have today.
What is another science word for landmass?
A landmass can be a continent or an island.
Landmass found tothe north of the Philippines?
The landmass is Asia.
Which landmass is closest to Trinidad?
The landmass that is closest to Trinidad is Venezuela.
What part of landmass is Europe?
Europe is part of the landmass known as Eurasia. It is also part of the larger landmass known as Afro-Eurasia.
