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Is there more water or ice in antarctica?

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Ice. Water is liquid ice and is found in the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica. Ninety-eight percent of the continent is covered with ice.

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Any water in Antarctica forms into ice, either sea ice or fresh-water ice.


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Is Antarctica a ice shelf?

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Ice sheets on which continent store more than half of the earth's fresh water?

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