Wp/enm/Antartika



Antartika biþ þe moste sutherne contynen on þe Erþe, and biþ fand in þe sutherne hemisphære. Hit biþ sourroundend in þe Artik cercle, encompassen bi þe sutherne occyan. Hit contains south pole. At 350,889,6400 acers (14,200,000 squyre kilometre or 5,500,000 myle), hit biþ þe fift larggest contynen on Erþe. Hit biþ twies þe syse of Australia, boute hit haveth þe lahest peple thikkenesse (0.00008 lēodan for ficterseyte þúsendméter). Antartika biþ about 98% coverde in ise, with oonly part of þe Antartik hedelond being uncoverde. Þe menem gretnesse of þe ise biþ 9.4 forlong (1.9 kilometre or 6,200 fet).

Antartika biþ þe chealdest, windiest, and drygest contynen, and haes þe heihest menem elevation of all þe contnenes. Antartika biþ a polar deseert, with 200 millimetre (7.9 ynche) yeerly reyn along þe cooste. 80% of þe weoreld fresshwater supplien helde here. If þis wæs to melten, see leveles wou'd risen 60 metre. Þe temperature of Antartika haes rechen -89.2°C (-128.6°F) or even -94.7°C (-135.8°F) mesured from space. Þe chaeldest part of þe yere, þe thirde quarter, menem -63°C (-81°F). Antartika fauna þe flora includen algae, bacteria, fungie, plante, protitsa, mites, nematodes, awks, sels, and tardigrades. Plantes oonly growen on tundra.

Antartika biþ þe last regioun on Erþe to be discoverde. Hit wæs fand in 1820 bi Russi explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny whenne þei fand þe Fimbul ise schelfe. Þe contynen wæs undestourbde for þe reste of þe 19th centurie bi cause of harsk weder condiciouns and positure. Jointly in January 1840, petticaptain Charles Wilkes of þe United States Seeking Enterprise and a