Antarctica

The Sahara is the largest desert outside of Antarctica.

No. Traffic to and from Antarctica is limited to seasons when there is no ice surrounding the continent -- for ships, and when it is not so cold as to freeze fuel and hydraulic systems in aircraft.

The highest Antarctic peak is Vinson Massif at 5,140 metres.

The second highest Antarctic peak is Mount Tyree at 4,852 metres.

The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest in the world with about 13.72 million sq km of permanent ice representing about 90% of the worlds ice and is over 4 km thick in places.

No. Fish do not live on continents.

This is an animal that prefers warmer water than can be found in the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica.

Birds that breed in Antarctica in sub-zero, extreme cold temperatures have adaptive behaviours to insure the preservation of their species.

For example, King and Emperor Penguin females lay their eggs and immediately scoop them up and position them on the tops of their webbed feet and flop their belly fat over the eggs to keep them warm.

After laying the eggs, and when the males return from feeding in the ocean waters, the males find their mates, and the egg is transferred to the tops of the males' webbed feet, where they flop their belly fat over the eggs.

Then, the males huddle in creches and move together slowly with their backs to the wind, to survive and warm the eggs enough to hatch.

After they hatch, the females return, fully regained of their pre-birth weights, and take over the chicks. The males are then free to eat after many months of hatching work.

You can see a photo, below, of a King Penguin creche protecting their chicks from the extreme cold, until the chicks' molts are complete and they can take to the water and feed themselves.

Generally, December 25 is the name of the day. Some temporary workers and scientists there may also call it 'Christmas'.

You need a map that centers on the South Pole, with Antarctica at its center.

Depending on what you want to explore, you can find an atlas -- flat map, or a globe that shows the curvature of the planet, or you may be able to find sonar or other types of sub-ice maps that may reveal what you want.

Australia is much closer to the South Pole than the North Pole.

All food consumed on every research station and field camp is imported by the government that supports that scientific work. Food is available there which is familiar to the culture of the supporting country.

Exceptions may be produce that is grown using hydroponic technologies. These foods include lettuce, tomatoes, spices and edible flowers. All food grown this way must be consumed on the continent, per the Antarctic Treaty.

Because Antarctica is a "polar" region, there is no precipitation, it has no lakes or rivers and is in fact the driest continent. Antarctica is the world's largest desert.
All of the continent of Antarctica is considered a desert. It is the driest continent on earth.

Like anyone who visits Antarctica Shackleton probably observed sea birds, such as penguins and skua, and sea mammals, such as whales and seals. These animals visit Antarctica's beaches to breed, but do not live on the continent: it's too cold there and there is no food chain.

Antarctica is not known for its snow: Antarctica is one of the driest deserts on earth with less than five percent humidity.

Antarctica is known for its ice, which covers 98% of the continent's surface. At the South Pole, its elevation is 2,835 meters, or about 9,300 feet tall.

Africa: Algeria, Egypt and Ethiopia

Antarctica: no countries

Australia & Oceania: Papua New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand

Europe: France, Germany, and Spain

Asia: Russia, China and India

North America: United States, Canada and Mexico

South America: Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela

Australia, Argentina, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The United States has not made any claims to land in Antarctica, but it reserves the right to do so in the future, if necessary. Also, the United States and many other countries do no recognize the claims of any of the countries above.

An American naval officer, a Captain Wilkes, was in command of the first ship to ever make sightings of the mainland of Antarctica, and hence a long stretch of its seacoast is named "Wilkes Land". He was quite an explorer because there is also a Wilkes Island in the Central Pacific. It is one of the three islands of Wake Atoll.

According to the Antarctic Treaty, the continent of Antarctica, and its surrounding islands, are "no man's land" for all practical purposes.

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Antarctica's average humidity is about five percent. For a continent which is the size of USA and Mexico combined, this makes Antarctica a desert. On the northern coasts, there may be as much as eight inches of precipitation per year, and elsewhere, precipitation is negligible.

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The ice sheet is composed of fresh water; the Southern Ocean that surrounds the continent is salty -- sea water.

There are no countries in Antarctica. Antarctica does not have any real countries, some countries on other continents have territory that they have laid claim to there, but there are no real countries on Antarctica, it is just a continent that is basically uninhabited other than research stations, and penguins.
There are no countries in Antarctica

Number who have ever been born---------------------------------106,456,367,669

World population in mid-2002------------------------------------------6,215,000,000

Percent of those ever born who are living in 2002--------------5.8

These figures are the result of a lot of speculation and the application of a certain amount of licence as any population records available for mankind only go back about 1% of their existence in time.

The South Pole is at 90 degrees S latitude and is located on the continent of Antarctica. Antarctica is a continent of approximately 14,000,000 sq km. It is surrounded by the Southern Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. There are no countries on Antarctica and no permanent population. Many countries have scientific research stations on Antarctica. Because Antarctica is a "polar" region, there is no precipitation, it has no lakes or rivers and is in fact the driest continent. Average temperatures in the Antarctic interior get down to -70 degrees Celsius during the winter months and -35 degrees Celsius in the warmer months. The coastal temperatures are much warmer with a range of -15 to -32 Celsius in Winter and -5 to +5 Celsius in Summer. The interior of Antarctica is considered the world's driest desert because the extreme cold freezes water vapour out of the air. Annual snowfall on the polar plateau is equivalent to less than 5 cm of rain. Antarctica has some of the strongest winds on earth, with some winds reaching 320 kph.

Governments representing about 80% of the earth's population signed or ratified the Antarctic Treaty.

According to Wikipedia, there are 46 countries currently -- September 14, 2009 -- signed up with the Antarctic Treaty.