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The flightless midge Belgica antarctica, the largest purely terrestrial animal in Antarctica, reaches 6 mm (1 ⁄ 4 in) in size. [ 114 ] Antarctic krill , which congregates in large schools , is the keystone species of the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean, being an important food organism for whales, seals, leopard seals , fur seals, squid ...
Antarctica is the largest ice desert in the world. Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet , the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water . Averaging at least 1.6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2.5 km below sea level ...
Antarctica: Antarctic territorial claims by Chile and United Kingdom. It is 61 km (38 mi) long and between 13 and 34 km (8.1 and 21.1 mi) wide. [45] — Fletcher Island: 1,580: 610: Antarctica: Antarctic territorial claims by Australia. Island has a diameter of 0.40 km (0.25 mi). [46] — Charcot Island: 1,500: 580: Antarctica
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
Rank Name Type Image Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) Location [note 1] Nation(s) 1: Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra: 14,200,000 [1]: 5,482,651: Antarctica: N/A 2: Arctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra
The nearly 2,000-square-mile section of the ice sheet is hanging on by a thread — a flimsy 12-mile stretch of frozen water.
The Ross Ice Shelf is one of many such shelves. It reaches into Antarctica from the north, and covers an area of about 520,000 km 2 (200,000 sq mi), nearly the size of France. [2] [3] The ice mass is about 800 km (500 mi) wide and 970 km (600 mi) long. In some places, namely its southern areas, the ice shelf can be almost 750 m (2,450 ft) thick.
The world’s biggest iceberg – more than twice the size of London - is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor in Antarctica.