How Big Is Antarctica?

By Johnny Cat in Travel on Nov 9, 2009 at 1:39 pm

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Photo: Icebridge (NASA)

Antarctica is roughly 5.4 million square miles (14 million square kilometers) in size, and that’s with all of its ice. There is a land mass beneath, which looks like this. Twitter user Icebridge made this image to illustrate just how large our most unvisited continent actually is.

Conversely, “it is estimated that at any given time there are (only) 1,000 people ‘living’ in Antarctica, but this varies depending on the season.” (from Answerbag.)

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Tags: Antarctica, comparison, image, size

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Luna
Nov 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Wow! Non-existent housing market?
Not clued in
Nov 9th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Icebridge must be a level 20 artist…

;P
pwscott
Nov 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Let’s start terraforming now so we can create an entire continent off the grid. We got to save something while we’re waiting on those rockets to take us to a better planet.
e cigarette
Nov 9th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Damn dude man antarctica is monstrous!
A
Nov 10th, 2009 at 12:02 am
IceBridge is part of NASA’s current enormous endeavor to make flight paths over Antarctica to determine ice thickness, among other things, in light of the previous method of relying on NASA’s ICEsat satellite, which is dying. The crew, including a group of students and engineers from Lawrence, KS (Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets) is based in Puntas Arenas, Chile, and make 11-hour flights down to Antarctica and back on an almost daily basis.
skidworth
Nov 10th, 2009 at 11:30 am
don’t expect to just sail down to antarctica and have a look around….it is off limits! makes you wonder what is going on beneath the ice. google “new schwabenland” for some hints.
kjkj
Jun 3rd, 2010 at 3:09 am
ITS massive its to big ahhhhhhh
Ally
Aug 16th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Antarctica is so icy

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