Antarctica’s southern ocean is full of unanswered questions — and this year’s antarctica new zealand scholarship recipients are on a mission to help solve them. The first antarctic land discovered was the island of south georgia, visited by the english merchant anthony de la roché in 1675. Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size.
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Without any ice, antarctica would emerge as a giant peninsula and archipelago of mountainous islands, known as lesser antarctica, and a single large landmass about the size of australia, known as greater antarctica.
Though antarctica is really, really chilly, it is considered a desert because it receives very little rain or snowfall The small amount of snow that does fall does not melt but builds up over hundreds and thousands of years to form large, thick ice sheets. Despite its massive size, antarctica has no permanent population due to its harsh climate, icy terrain, and remote location.
