in Antarctica.

Environmental conditions

Around 98% of continental Antarctica is covered in ice up to 4.7 km thick. Antarctica's icy deserts have extremely low temperatures, high solar radiation, and extreme dryness. Any precipitation that does fall usually falls as snow, and is restricted to a band around 300 km from the coast. Some areas receive as little as 50 mm of precipitation annually. The coldest temperature recorded on Earth was -89.4 C at Vostok Station

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