The thickest ice is found in East Antarctica. For example, Lake Vostok, a sub-glacial lake found in East Antarctica has a surface measured at -1,640.4′.
The thickest part of the Antarctic ice sheet is around the South Pole and is has been measured to be in excess of 15,000 feet. Both Wilkes Land and Queen Maud Land may have southern extents into the thickest part of the ice sheet.
Not all of the ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent has been measured. However, at the South Pole, the ice is estimated to be about 9,000 feet thick.
One hundred percent of the ice...in the Antarctic, is ice in the Antarctic.
At the South Pole, the elevation in excess of 9,000 feet is the thickness of the ice, plus, since the ice is so heavy, it pushes the continent under the pole to below sea level. The sea ice over the Arctic -- the site of the North Pole -- floats on sea water and is not as thick as the ice that covers the Antarctic continent.
The Antarctic of course.
Ninety-eight percent of the Antarctic continent is covered by an ice sheet.
The Antarctic Desert is a polar or ice desert.
in the middle of the waters
The arctic is is mostly ice. Antarctica is a continent that is included in the antarctic region.
No animals live permanently on the Antarctic continent or in its polar ice cap.
The Antarctic ice sheet covers 98% of the continent, contains about 90% of earth's ice and 70% of the earth's fresh water.
The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 70% of the earth's store of fresh water and about 90% of the earth's store of ice.