Antarctica, international land of science
Antarctica, international land of science
Antarctica, with a total surface of about five million square miles, covers an area as large as Europe and the United States combined. If one Includes the great Ice shelves which fill the deep seas and the bays surrounding the continent, another half million square miles must be added to its immensity. Furthermore, in winter the outlying seas freeze over for hundreds of miles, and when the ice pack has reached the limit of its extension, Antarctica becomes a solid mass of more than fourteen million square milesequal to a quarter of the earth's entire land surface.