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"
The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.
"Scientists traveled to Antarctica to study ice cores from the southernmost continent."
Antarctica comes from the New Latin word Antarctica, which was derived from Ancient Greek. The original Greek term combined a prefix meaning "opposed" with a word for the Arctic, referring to its position opposite the North Pole.