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You may be thinking of the phenomenon where the sea ice of the Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent freezes in winter, and connects to the continental ice sheet. Essentially, then, the size of the ice cover doubles the land mass measurement of the continent.

The continent measures 5.405 million sq miles or 14 million km² in summer, and in winter, that size is multiplied by two.

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