20 Facts about Antarctica

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Today I am going to tell you 20 facts about Antarctica 🇦🇶 (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 😎 day!! And a Merry Christmas 🎅!! Bye!!

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Waterfall that runs red as blood

1. Antarctica is also called the South Pole.
2. The coldest temperature is recorded in 1983 at Vostok Station, Antarctica about - 89.2 °C ( - 128.6 °F).
3. Antarctica is surrounded by Southern Ocean.
4. The hottest temperature in Antarctica is 14.5 °C ( - 58.2 °F).
5. 90% of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica.
6. 5th largest continent in the world 🗺.
7. It's twice the size as Australia 🇦🇺 🌏!!
8. Once Antarctica was warm as California!?
9. The largest iceburg ever measured is bigger than Jamaica 🇯🇲!! It broke in 2000.
10. Antarctica is almost 1.5 times the size as America 🌎.
11. There is a waterfall in Antarctica that runs red as blood.
12. Did you know: Antarctica had only one ATM 🏧!!
13. Antarctica is about 1.3 times larger as Europe 🌍.
14. Antarctica is the largest desert 🏜 in the world 🗺.
15. Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone
16. There are at least seven Christian churches ⛪ in Antarctica.
17. Some parts of Antarctica 🇦🇶 have had no rain or snow for the last 2 million years.
18. The ice sheet of Antarctica has been in existence since 40 million years.
19. There are 300 lakes beneath Antarctica.
20. The name "Antarctica" comes from a Greek word that means "opposite to the north".