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Including its coastal islands, Antarctica occupies a range of
more than 50° degrees of latitude, and all 360° of longitude.
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What are the latitude and longitude lines of the Antarctic?
Most of the Antarctic continent is within the the Antarctic Circle which is at 66 degrees 32 minutes S latitude. All lines of longitude pass through Antarctica. The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude. Should it become necessary to provide a longitude, it usually given as 0 degees W longitude.
Is Antarctica the most mountainous continent?
Antarctica is the highest continent given its size and average elevation.
What continent has more land Asia or Antarctica?
Asia. It is the largest continent by far. Antarctica is about the size of the United States.
What is Antarctica's relative size?
Antarctica is the fifth largest continent on earth, and is about the size of USA and Mexico, combined.
How big is antarctica in the summer?
Antarctica is a continent and does not change size based on seasons.
Which continent is a little more than half the size of Asia?
Antarctica
Which continent is the smallest in size Africa Australia or Antarctica?
Australia is the smallest continent on earth. Africa - 30,300,000 sq km Antarctica - 14,000,000 sq km (island continent) Australia - 7,686,850 sq km (island continent)
When water around Antarctica freezes in its winter by how much does it increase the size of the continent in comparison to its summer?
The continent of Antarctica doubles in size, in winter when the sea ice surrounding it freezes.
When is Antarctica smaller and bigger?
The continent of Antarctica does not change size. However, the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent during summer merges with the sea ice that forms during the winter, effectively doubling the size of the continent.
Which continent nearly doubles in size during winters?
Antarctica
Does antarctica double and shrink in size each year?
Antarctica, the continent, does not change in size, but the ice the surrounds the continent freezes in the winter, essentially doubling the size of the ice that covers 98% of the continent.
Why is Antarctica snowbound in June?
Antarctica is ice-bound in June, because the sea ice freezes around the continent, essentially doubling the continent's size. This makes the continent inaccessible.
