Antarctica

• with all islands and ice shelves: 13,661,000 km^2
• contiguous continent: 11,900,000 km^2
• highest peak: Vinson Massif 4897 m
• height of surface at south pole: 2,835 m
• average height: 2,500 m
• maximum known thickness of ice: 4,776 m
• lowest recorded temperature: -89.2 degrees C
• highest recorded windspeed: 327 km/h
• approximately 80% of the freshwater in the world is ice in the Antarctic
• the largest ice berg ever recorded measured approximately 335 x 97 km having an area approximately 31,000 km^2. this is larger than Belgium