Area14.2 trillion m2
25.8 millionGolf courses
94.7 quadrillionPinky fingernails
14.2 million square kilometers
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Antarctic Polar Desert
The largest and coldest desert on Earth, covering an entire continent/Deserts
Antarctica is technically the world's largest desert by area, receiving less than 200 mm of precipitation annually (mostly as snow), with some interior regions receiving less than 50 mm. The ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys haven't seen rain in roughly 2 million years. The Antarctic ice sheet averages 2,160 m thick and contains about 26.5 million cubic kilometers of ice, representing roughly 70% of the world's fresh water. Temperatures have reached -89.2 degrees C at Vostok Station, the coldest reliably recorded temperature on Earth.
Measurements
Average ice thickness2,160 m
788Pool tables
51,429Watch face widths
432 millionSpider silk threads
Continental ice sheet average
Maximum ice thickness4,776 m
52.2American football fields
2.1 thousandthsGreat Barrier Reefs
36.2 quintillionthsMagellanic Cloud widths
Astrolabe Subglacial Basin
Ice volume26.5 quadrillion m3
530 sextillionEyedrops
4.4 septillionTeardrops
4.1 sextillionHuman eyeballs
26.5 million cubic kilometers
Lowest recorded temperature184 K
5.3 tenthsCar dashboards in summer
4.1 tenthsCookie ovens
3.9 tenthsBread ovens
-89.2 degrees C at Vostok Station
Annual precipitation (interior)5 hundredths m
5.3 quintillionthsLight-years
476 millionthsSoccer pitches
Less than 50 mm water equivalent