Amazing Antarctica – Land of Extremes
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Antarctica lies under Australia, which makes it the land under the land down under. To see this remote, and inhuman terrain, with only a smattering of creatures brave enough or specially suited by nature to sustain an existence there, is to view perhaps, what it would be like to find life on another planet.
Antarctica has the lowest temperatures in our planet reaching 70° Celsius below zero with winds of 300 km. Per hour. Containing 90% of the planet’s ice it’s the major reserve of fresh water on Earth.
About 99% of Antarctica is covered with ice at an average thickens of 2,500 meters, reaching in some places as deep as 4,776 meters.
If the ice layer would melt all the Earth’s Oceans would rise 70 meters above the actual level.
