Antarctica Continent On World Map

As well as being the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world, antarctica also has the highest average elevation. There are 7 continents on the earth: Of particular interest is the geographic south pole in the center of the map, which designates the southernmost destination on our planet’s surface, and one of only two points where all the longitudinal and latitudinal lines on the map meet!

For your information, antarctica covers 14.5 million square kilometers. The three oceans are collectively called the southern ocean. This fragment of a bigger map, found in 1929 by german theologian gustav deissmann as he catalogued artifacts for istanbul's topkapi palace library, seemingly depicted the americas and antarctica.

To enable antarctica again you just need to remove the value aq from the ‘exclude regions’ field in the regions tab of your map.

2116x2605 / 1,98 mb go to map. Of particular interest is the geographic south pole in the center of the map, which designates the southernmost destination on our planet’s surface, and one of only two points where all the longitudinal and latitudinal lines on the map meet! For most of us, it is incomprehensibly big, with miles and miles of ice as far as the eye can see. Asia, africa, north america, south america, antarctica, europe, and australia.