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Article: Antarctica.
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- Science Weekly
- Article date:
- March 7, 2003
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Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth. It is a continent at the South Pole, but there are no countries in Antarctica. The seasons are the opposite of where we live. When we have winter in the U.S., they have summer. The sun stays up for 6 months at a time. It never gets dark during the summer.
Antarctica is as dry as a desert. Very little snow falls, but what does, stays there! All the snow that has fallen over millions of years has turned into ice. Antarctica is covered by a huge ice sheet over 2 miles thick!
At the edge of the land, the ice sometimes breaks off to form icebergs. These huge chunks of ice float ...