Антарктида континент на півдні землі який оточує південний полюс

❄️Antarctica 🇦🇶

🔶Antarctica (or Antarctica — from the Greek ἀνταρκτικός - the area opposite to the Arctic) is a continent located in the very south of the Earth, the center of which practically coincides with the South Pole of our planet. Antarctica is washed by the waters of the Southern Ocean, has an area of 14.4 million km2, 1.6 million km2 of which are ice shelves, which are sources of icebergs of enormous size. The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest on the planet, it contains about 80% of all fresh water on Earth.

🔶The expedition of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev in the South Polar seas on the sloops Vostok and Mirny discovered the sixth continent of the Earth on January 16 (28), 1820 (the official date of the discovery of Antarctica) in the area of the modern Bellingshausen ice shelf.

🔶In Antarctica, any kind of activity is prohibited, except scientific.
https://earth.google.com/web/search/Antarctida