As the world still mourns the cataclysm of the earthquake and is faced with an impending tsunami, which has never been mourned so far elsewhere in the world in the coldest, Antarctic ice is now starting to break and crack massively, ready to create another unknown wave.
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Antarctica ( / n t r k t k / ( listen ) is the southernmost and least populated continent on Earth . Located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, almost twice the size of Australia and larger than Europe, and has an area of 14.2 million km 2 (5,500,000 square miles). Most of Antarctica is covered in ice, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).