What is the size of Antarctica?

Question

What is the size of Antarctica?

Answer 1

Good to see people can still cut and paste.

Answer 2

Remember, the size virtually doubles in winter, due to the extension of the ice.

" It covers about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km), and would be essentially circular except for the outflaring Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches toward the southern tip of South America (some 600 miles [970 km] away), and for two principal embayments, the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea. "

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-910...

Answer 3

total area: 14 million sq km

280,000 sq km free floating ice

13.72 million sq km land mass

It is slightly less than 1.5 times the area of the US

Side note: Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, following Asia, Africa, North America, and South America

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