Antarctica is the store for 90% of the earth's ice: an ice sheet covers 98% of the continent.
The largest remaining ice shelf is the Ross Ice Shelf , which is about the size of France. You can find this ice shelf in east Antarctica.Otherwise, 98% of the continent is covered with an ice sheet.
70% of the world's fresh water is stored in the ice in Antarctica. 90% of the Earth's ice is also found there.
No. Antarctica gets very little "new" snow in a year. the snow and ice on the ground has built up over millenia.
World's largest ice cave presently known is in Austria: the Eisriesenwelt. It's a normal limestone cave with >42km of known passages, many richly decorated with lovely ice layers and formations. Show-cave in parts.
Several of the ice shelves attached to Antarctica are disintegrating because the sea water is melting them from below.
You may be thinking of the largest ice sheet in the world.
Antarctica is an ice desert and the largest desert in the world.
The largest ice in Antarctica is the ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
Yes, Antarctica is the world's largest desert and is covered by ice and snow.
Antarctica is dominated by the Antarctic ice Sheet, the largest single piece of ice on Earth. It has a number of mountains and without the ice, would have a land mass similar in size to Australia.
The ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland are the largest in the world. They are shrinking.
antarctica is the largest ice cap in the world. my geo teacher mrs.magners told me (: she's awesome
Simply, Ice.
Antarctica is the largest polar desert on earth; the largest storage area for ice on earth -- and that ice stores the largest extent of fresh water on earth. It is also the highest continent.
The largest remaining ice shelf is the Ross Ice Shelf , which is about the size of France. You can find this ice shelf in east Antarctica.Otherwise, 98% of the continent is covered with an ice sheet.
Antarctica's ice sheet holds about 90% of the earth's ice.
Antarctica's ice sheet represents about 90% of the earth's ice.