Without any ice, antarctica would emerge as a giant peninsula and archipelago of mountainous islands, known as lesser antarctica, and a single large landmass about the size of australia, known as. Most of antarctica is covered by the antarctic ice sheet, with an. Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size.
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Plants and microbes antarctica and its waters are home to lichens, mosses and liverworts, algae, kelp and microscopic organisms.
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The lowest temperature ever recorded in antarctica was minus 89.4 c (minus 129 f). A new map has unmasked the landscape beneath antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent. The antarctic ice sheet contains about 7.2 million cubic miles (30 million cubic kilometers) in an area just under 1.5 times. Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on earth.