Antarctic ice sheet
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antarctic-ice-sheet-180-11996302
title:
Antarctic ice sheet
text:
The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres and an average thickness of over 2 kilometres (1.2 mi). It is the largest of Earth's two current ice sheets, containing 26.5 million cubic kilometres of ice, which is equivalent to 61% of all fresh water on Earth. Its surface is nearly continuous, and the only ice-free areas on the continent are the dry valleys, nunataks of the Antarctic mountain ranges, and spar
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Earth's southern polar ice cap
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_ice_sheet
date created:
2004-11-11T15:35:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T14:54:00Z
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13
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