Antarctica
WordNet
noun
(1) An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
"Antarctica is twice the size of Australia"
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English
Etymology
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Proper noun
- The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
- The wider South Polar region comprising the Antarctic Continent as well as the adjacent Antarctic and Subantarctic islands, and the Southern Ocean waters situated south of the Antarctic Convergence.