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A continent of roughly 14 million square kilometres surrounded on every side by open ocean, of which about 98 per cent is buried under an ice sheet holding the great majority of the world's…
-90.0, 0.0 · regional · continental ice sheet since approximately 34 million years ago (Eocene-Oligocene boundary)
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- A place in: Life at the Poles · 4 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections · 3 of 8
- is adjacent to of Southern Ocean — The Southern Ocean surrounds the continent on every side and there is no land connection to any other landmass.
- is located in of Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) — Colonies are distributed around the continental coast, and most were first identified from satellite imagery rather than from the ground.
- is located in of Halley Bay Emperor Penguin Colony — The colony sits on fast ice off the eastern Weddell Sea coast of the continent; its precise position shifts between seasons.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates