Antarctica is located
around the South
pole, so you can't
really get anymore
extreme than that!
It's bloody cold!
Antarctica is a continent. It has
an area of 5 million square miles.
That's one and a half times the
size of the USA!
No one had lived
there at all until
1897. Hardly
anyone lives there
no either, except
scientists.
The temperature is usually
bellow freezing.
Temperatures have been
recorded on an island to be
-60 degrees. And on the
coast, the temperatures can
sink to -30 degrees.