Jan 30, 2026antarctica, 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. Conditions are so ferocious that no human lives there permanently; Instead, scientists go for few months at a time, living in specialist.
Jun 16, 2025in this guide, we serve up a cliff-notes sort of sketch of the white continent (as antarctica’s often called), and also provide a slew of links to more in-depth articles on specific topics,. Jan 20, 2026visit the definitions and notes page to view a description of each topic.
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