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Today I am going to tell you 20 facts about Antarctica ๐ฆ๐ถ (Some crazy facts). These facts are on my own words. I hope you really like my Antarctica facts. I hope you learned something from this post. Stay Tuned of my next posts in the holidays!!Have an awesome and a cool ๐ day!! And a Merry Christmas ๐
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- Antarctica is also called the South Pole.
- The coldest temperature is recorded in 1983 at Vostok Station, Antarctica about - 89.2 °C ( - 128.6 °F).
- Antarctica is surrounded by Southern Ocean.
- The hottest temperature in Antarctica is 14.5 °C ( - 58.2 °F).
- 90% of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica.
- 5th largest continent in the world ๐บ.
- It's twice the size as Australia ๐ฆ๐บ ๐!!
- Once Antarctica was warm as California!?
- The largest iceburg ever measured is bigger than Jamaica ๐ฏ๐ฒ!! It broke in 2000.
- Antarctica is almost 1.5 times the size as America ๐.
- There is a waterfall in Antarctica that runs red as blood.
- Did you know: Antarctica had only one ATM ๐ง!!
- Antarctica is about 1.3 times larger as Europe ๐.
- Antarctica is the largest desert ๐ in the world ๐บ.
- Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone
- There are at least seven Christian churches ⛪ in Antarctica.
- Some parts of Antarctica ๐ฆ๐ถ have had no rain or snow for the last 2 million years.
- The ice sheet of Antarctica has been in existence since 40 million years.
- There are 300 lakes beneath Antarctica.
- The name "Antarctica" comes from a Greek word that means "opposite to the north".