Antarctica (27 photos)

Antarctica - a continent located in the south of the Earth's center of Antarctica roughly coincides with the south geographic pole. Antarctica washed by the waters of the Southern Ocean (formerly the Ocean regarded as the southern part of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans). The area of ​​the continent is about 14, 4 million km.kv (including 1, 6 million km.kv make ice shelves).

Antarctica is also called a part of the world, consisting of the Antarctic continent and its surrounding islands.