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Antarctica receives so little precipitation that it qualifies as the largest desert on Earth.
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Antarctica · The Poles
External reference (site language): Antarctica ↗
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Research stations use the time zone of their supply country, so neighbours can be hours apart.
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Antarctica · The Poles
External reference (site language): Time in Antarctica ↗
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Around 70 percent of the world's fresh water is locked in the Antarctic ice sheet, up to four kilometres thick.
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Antarctica · The Poles
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The North Pole sits on drifting sea ice while the South Pole rests on a continent under kilometres of ice.
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Poles · The Poles
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Blood Falls is stained by iron-rich brine that has been sealed beneath the ice for over a million years.
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Taylor Glacier, Antarctica · The Poles
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Katabatic winds strip the McMurdo Dry Valleys bare, and some have not seen rain for around two million years.
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McMurdo, Antarctica · The Poles
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Emperors incubate eggs on their feet through the polar night at temperatures below minus 40 degrees.
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Antarctica · The Poles
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Residents leaving town are legally advised to carry a rifle because of the bear population.
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Svalbard, Norway · The Poles
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Permafrost prevents decomposition, so burials in the town cemetery stopped decades ago.
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Longyearbyen, Svalbard · The Poles
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Above the Arctic Circle the sun does not set for weeks, and blackout curtains are standard equipment.
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Arctic · The Poles
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Icebergs calve from land glaciers, so despite floating in the sea they are made of compressed fresh snow.
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Poles · The Poles
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Roughly 90 percent of an iceberg's mass sits below the waterline, which is where the metaphor comes from.
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Poles · The Poles
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At around minus 40 degrees, throwing boiling water into the air turns it into a cloud of ice crystals almost instantly, because the hot droplets are tiny and evaporate fast.
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Siberia and the Arctic · The Poles
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At high latitudes the sun meets the horizon at a shallow angle, so twilight can stretch for hours instead of minutes.
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Poles · The Poles
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