Area: 1, 40, 00,
000 sq. km,
Population:
Uninhabited
Size: fifth
largest continent.
Situated:
Antarctica, centered on the south pole, is situated 960 km from South America
2,700 km from Australia and 4,000 km from south Africa. It is surrounded by
Southern or Antarctic Ocean, formed from the southern waters fo Pacific, Indian
and Atlantic Ocean.
Shape:
Except for the deep indentations of the Ross and Weddell
Seas and the projecting peninsula, the continent is roughly circular in shape.
Climate:
world’s
coldest continent and remains covered with very thick layer of ice, therefore
known as ‘white continent’.
Precipitation,
in the form of snow (equal to 5 cm of rain) making Antarctica, one of the
earth’s great deserts.
The land:
