Antarctic continent

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Antarctic continent - an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep; "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia"

Antarctica

Antarctic, Antarctic Zone, South Frigid Zone - the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters

Adelie Coast, Adelie Land, Terre Adelie - a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia; noted for its large colonies of penguins

Coats Land - a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea

Enderby Land - a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land; claimed by Australia

Queen Maud Land - a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea; claimed by Norway

South Pole - the southernmost point of the Earth's axis

Victoria Land - a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land

Wilkes Land - a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia; most of the territory is claimed by Australia

Admiralty Range - mountains in Antarctica to the north of Victoria Land

Antarctic Peninsula, Palmer Peninsula - a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific

Ross Sea - an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica

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As a result, current research is often focused on the shallow seas right next to the Antarctic continent, where most of this transformation takes place.

University of Southampton: Research sheds new light on Antarctic control of global climate

He added: 'Pine-Island and Thwaites Glacier in the West of the Antarctic continent are increasingly losing ice for three decades already, and computer simulations support that we see a marine ice sheet instability happening here potentially leading to additional global sea-level rise of more than 3 meters.

Initiated instability in West Antarctica might be the fastest on the continent

Shackleton's third voyage on August 1914 was the most ambitious-- to cross the Antarctic continent on foot from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea.

The Search For Shackleton's Ship

Most of the Antarctic continent is covered by the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is up to four kilometres thick and contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by about 58 metres.

Surface Lakes Cause Ice Shelves to 'Flex'

14 -- The thick ice cap above the Antarctic continent will not disappear in our life time.

The End of the Antarctic Ice Cap in Sight?

This allows the Antarctic continent to maintain its huge ice sheet.

Ocean equipment resurfaces after five years lost

The findings are significant, because as Silvano explains, the ice shelves currently "resist the flow of ice to the ocean, acting like a buttress to hold the ice sheet on the Antarctic continent. Where warm ocean waters flow under the ice shelves they can drive rapid melting from below, causing ice shelves to thin or break up and reducing the buttressing effect." As Antarctica is home to some of the world's largest ice sheets, the processes revealed in the new study could have critical implications for global sea levels.

STUDY FINDS FEEDBACK LOOP IN MELTING ANTARCTIC GLACIERS

- The Antarctic continent is covered by about 15.5 million square kilometers (nearly 6 million square miles) of ice, which has accumulated over thousands of years through snowfall.

Satellites document alarming ice loss in Antarctica

From the air, the contours of Totten Glacier are invisible because the entire Antarctic continent is covered by a seamless, kilometers-thick blanket of snow and ice.

Sea level fears as more of giant Antarctic glacier floating than thought

Located in the largest land region of the Antarctic continent, no animals live here.