Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica
A huge icy land at the bottom of the world, full of penguins.
Antarctica is a continent covered in ice, with no country and no towns. Penguins and seals live along its rocky coasts.
Antarctica is Earth's coldest continent — a wilderness of ice about two kilometres thick. Nobody lives there permanently; scientists visit, and penguin colonies crowd the rocky shore.
Three things to know
Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet that is about two kilometres thick on average.
It holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured on Earth: −89.2°C.
No people live there permanently, but penguin colonies crowd its coasts.
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