Antarctica
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Antarctica is a continent located literally at the bottom of the world. The weather there is extremely cold. Antarctica is almost completely covered by ice and snow for much of the year. Very few people live there, except in the small towns of McMurdo and Palmer on the seashore. There is a science station at the South Pole where experiments are done relating mostly to weather and outer space exploration.
Antarctica is the only continent with no countries in it. By international treaty, none of the land in Antarctica really belongs to any country.
There are very few plants in Antarctica; the only large air-breathing animals are penguins, seals, and whales.
Antarctica is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean, but more lately, the seas right around it have together been called the "Southern Ocean". The next nearest continent is South America.
[edit] External links
- Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria
- L.L. Ivanov et al, Topographic map of Livingston Island and Greenwich Island
| Continents of the world |
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| Asia | Africa | North America | Central America | South America | Antarctica | Europe | Eurasia | Africa-Eurasia | Australia |
| (The Pacific Islands are not part of any continent, but sometimes they are grouped with Australia as Oceania) |
