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Antarctica is a continent that covers 10% of the earth's surface -- land. Ninety-eight percent of it is covered with an ice sheet -- ice.

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What percantage of antarctica is NOT ice?

None of Antarctica is ice. Antarctica is 100% land. The land is covered -- about 98% -- by ice, so only two percent of the land is not covered by ice.


What percent of Antarctica is land and what percent is ice?

One hundred percent of Antarctica is land. The continent is about 98% covered by ice.


What is the increase in land mass by ice in Antarctica?

Ice does not increase land mass.


Is Antarctica made up of more ice or land?

Antarctica is a continent which is 100% land. However, 98% of the continent is covered by an ice sheet. So there is more land than ice.


How much of Antarctica is solid ice?

Antarctica is 100% land. The ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent is solid ice.


Is there a land under Antarctica?

Antarctica is a continent, so yes: under its ice sheet, there is land.


Can helicopters land on Antarctica?

Yes. They land on the ice, typically.


What was Antarctica firstly known as?

the land of ice


Is everything in Antarctica ice?

Antarctica is a land continent, 98% of which is covered with an ice sheet. Because it is a polar desert, everything on Antarctica freezes.


Is the south pole land?

Its ice on top on land; the continent Antarctica.


How do you know where land is on Antarctica?

Land on Antarctica is everywhere. It lies under 100% of the ice that covers 98% of the continent.


Can a seal swim from Antarctica to normal land?

Antarctica is normal land, 98% of it just happens to be covered with ice. The seals breed on Antarctica's beaches and enjoy sunning and resting on that ice during that season.