10 Wonderful Facts About the Coldest Continent on Earth
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VIVA – The fact about the coldest continent on Earth, we often hear about the north polar region it because the north polar region is a popular area. But it turns at the south polar, Antarctica. Antarctica is the most remote continent and is rarely touched by humans.
Antarctica is only used as a natural laboratory for studying about earth and atmosphere. Actually, Antarctica is a continent with beautiful landscapes but not friendly for humans to live in. This continent is the coldest place on Earth.
Here are ten wonderful facts about the coldest continent on earth:
1. Freshwater Continent
The existence of  freshwater on the Antarctic continent is the largest in the world . In the creation of Gillissen (1991) entitled "An Environmental History of Two Freshwater Lakes in the Larsemann Hill, Antarctica '', Gillisen explains that 70 percent of the world's freshwater is locked in layers on the vast ice continent of Antarctica. Antarctica.
Villa Las Estrellas, Antartika
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The Antarctic ice is the largest on Earth, covering 14 million square kilometers, covering the valleys and all of its highlands. Only 1 percent of the continent of Antarctica is permanently free of ice.
The thickness of the ice on the Antarctic continent is 4.5 kilometers or equivalent to half the height of Mount Everest. If all that ice melted, global sea levels would rise as high as 60 meters.
2. Desert Continent
Desert is defined as an area that has little annual rainfall. The article by F.J Wentz, et al (2007) with the title "How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring", states that the continent of Antarctica which is at the South Pole only has an annual rain of 10 mm.
Although Antarctica has always been covered by ice, it took 45 million years to grow to its current thickness, due to the lack of rainfall there. Apart from being the driest continent on Earth, Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, and highest place on earth.
