11 interesting facts few people know about Antarctica

As one of the five continents of the world, Antarctica is the most mysterious continent for humans. Researchers have discovered many interesting things about Antarctica that not everyone knows.

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Antarctica is completely surrounded by the ocean so only penguins, seals and whales live in the continent, not white bears like the Arctic.There are about 19 species of penguins living here, the largest being the emperor penguin.

Antarctica is located south of the Earth and is the 5th largest continent in the world, after Asia, Africa, North America, South America.

With an area of ​​14 million km2, the size of Antarctica is nearly 2 times that of Australia.

About 98% of the continent is covered with snow and ice, the ice here is at least 1.6 km thick, and 3.5 km thick.It is estimated that the world sea level will rise about 70m, submerging about 2.2 million km2 of land if all Antarctic ice sheets melt.

Living conditions in Antarctica are considered to be the harshest on the planet.Some parts of Europe have had no rain or snow for the past 2 million years.

Antarctica is the coldest continent with temperatures down to -89 degrees Celsius, the driest with an average annual rainfall of only 55mm, the strongest wind with a wind speed of 100m / s, the highest with Average height compared to sea level is 2,350m, compared to all continents.

Antarctica is quite dry and is considered the largest desert in the world.The average annual precipitation in this continent is only 200 mm along the coast, if it goes deep into the mainland, the rainfall will decrease a lot.

Antarctica is the only continent on Earth with no living reptiles.

90% of fresh water on Earth is concentrated in Antarctica.

Due to the extreme weather, there were no settlers in Antarctica.Only about 1,000 - 5,000 people live and work at research stations distributed along this continent in a short time.Therefore, the whole continent has only one ATM automatic teller machine.

Every 60 years, in Antarctica and in the North Pole, there is a strange phenomenon of climate and physics: half a year - half a year.This phenomenon only occurs in the region of the highest latitude of the Earth because of its self-motion around its axis and around the Sun.