GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The 98% area of the continent is covered with ice and that is why it is often referred to as the frozen landmass on the planet. The minimum temperature that was ever recorded on Earth was in the continent of Antarctica and that was around minus 89.2 degree Celsius.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Earth’s southernmost continent is twice the size of Australia, and 98% of it is covered by ice. Antarctica is cold (the coldest recorded temperature is-89°C, from Vostok), but the peripheral islands and Antarctic Peninsula may have positive air temperatures in summer.

Detailed explanation-3: -About 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, a sheet of ice averaging at least 1.0 mile (1.6 km) thick. The continent has about 90% of the world’s ice (and thereby about 70% of the world’s fresh water). If all of this ice were to melt, sea levels would rise about 200 ft (60m).

Detailed explanation-4: -The essence of Antarctica is glacial ice cover. The ice, which has accumulated over millions of years, is up to 3 miles deep and covers about 5.3 million square miles, or about 97.6 percent of the continent.

Detailed explanation-5: -The polar ice caps melted for a while after that and it wasn’t until Africa and Antarctica separated around 160 million years ago that it began to cool again. By 23 million years ago, Antarctica was mostly icy forest and for the last 15 million years, it has been a frozen desert under a thick ice sheet.