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"Your
life is an island separated from all other islands and
continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other
shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself
are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its
happiness”
Kahlil Gibran
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"Antarctica
is the southernmost
continent and includes the
South Pole. Geographic sources disagree as to whether it
is surrounded by the
Southern Ocean or the South
Pacific Ocean, South
Atlantic Ocean, and
Indian Ocean. It is divided by the
Transantarctic Mountains. On average, it is the coldest,
driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average
elevation of all the continents.[1]
At 14.425 million km˛, Antarctica is the third-smallest
continent before
Europe and
Australia; 98% of it is covered in
ice.
Because there is little
precipitation, except at the coasts, the interior of the
continent is technically the largest
desert in the world. There are no permanent human
residents and Antarctica has never had an indigenous
population. Only cold-adapted plants and animals survive
there, including
penguins,
fur seals,
mosses,
lichens, and many types of
algae. The name "Antarctica" comes from the
Greekανταρκτικός (antarktikos), meaning
"opposite to the
Arctic."[2]
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Wikipedia
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