what country does antartica belong to?
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Hey there, I've looked it up and the funny fact is that it doesn't belong to another country : \n\nAs the only uninhabited continent, Antarctica has no government and belongs to no country. Various countries claim areas of it, but most other countries do not recognize those claims\nhttp://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:Ci-ojR9Pn6gJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica+antartica+belongs+to&hl=nl&gl=be&ct=clnk&cd=1
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Antarctica\n\n Geography: Antarctica is the icy continent at the South Pole. It is covered by permafrost (permanently frozen ground), is surrounded by water, and is about 1 1/2 times larger than the United States. The world's largest desert is on Antarctica. 98 percent of the land is covered with a continental ice sheet; the remaining 2 percent of land is barren rock. Antarctica has about 87% of the world's ice. \nClimate: The South Pole is the coldest, windiest, and driest place on Earth. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was at the South Pole; it reached -128.6°F (-88.0°C)! On average, most of Antarctica gets less than 2 inches of snow fall each year. \nPeople: Although scientific expeditions visit Antarctica, there are no permanent human residents (because of the extreme weather, which includes freezing temperatures, strong winds, and blizzards). There are about 4,000 seasonal visitors to Antarctica. \nLocation: Antarctica hasn't always been located at the South Pole. It has drifted, like the other continents, and has ranged from the equator (during the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago) to the South Pole. During the time of the dinosaurs (the Mesozoic Era, about 65 million to 248 million years ago), Antarctica was more temperate and housed dinosaurs and many other life forms. Now, there is very little indigenous life.
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antartica it is so cold there moister is frozen
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The Artic Ocean touches Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Norway, SO ... the continents would be:\n\nGreenland = North America\nCanada = North America\nAlaska = Noth America\nRussia = Asia / Europe\nNorway = Europe
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the southern hemishere is from the equator to the south pole and anything between that for example austrailia and antartica is two of the continents in the southern hemisphere.
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New Zealand is a country, not a continent, comprised of a group of islands off the southern coast of Australia. It's capital is Wellington and the two main islands are North Island and South Island.
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Yes.\n\nUnder the North Pole is just water- the americans and Russians have been sending submarines under there for years.\n\nAntartica was first recorded as being mapped centuries ago- some guy called Peri Reis (something like that) got credited for it but the map was around too long ago for them to have had the technology to see under the ice. The suggestion being that Antartica used to be warmer. Then Antartica disappeared from maps for several hundred years and only started reappearing fairly recently.\nEven then it has only been in the last 50 years or so that we've managed to be able to establish the shape of the rock below the ice and yes, it matches the Peri Reece (or whatever his name was lol) guys map!
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The Antarctic Ocean, which adjoins the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
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I will say antartica.. No crime.. no taxes..
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Well, the weather is certainly a determining factor.  It's sort of tough to live in any place where you know if you walk out on the front porch in your bathrobe to retrieve the morning paper, you'll freeze to death before you're able to bend over and pick it up.\n\nThere's another important reason for it, though.  The various countries of the world got together after the Antarctic continent was discovered and agreed that it should belong to no country-- which is much easier to agree upon when the land is a vast sheet of inhospitable ice and not lush and verdant; then it's easier to slaughter the less developed natives and claim God left you this great uninhabited land as your reward for being a peaceful and righteous people-- and that it really shouldn't be settled except to do scientific research.  Some countries claim land in the continent belongs to them, but their claims aren't internationally recognized and those countries do nothing with the land they claim, due to the limitations of the Antarctic Treaty which governs its preservation for scientific study alone.\n\nSo, beyond the weather, it's also off limits to set up permanent settlements there, or develop the continent's resources, in the same way a public park is off limits to someone who wants to build a house.  \n\nYou can go, you can look around, you can take a scenic stroll and explore the place all you want, but at the end of the day, please go home.\n\nAs a result, when you're in Antarctica, it's the McMurdo research station or bust.
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first off.. there are no eskimos in antartica hehe antartica is much much colder, there are a few scientific labs in antartica, maybe a bit more.. but not much.. very very harsh down there
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I think its the Antarctic
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South America extends farther south. The tip of Argentina is like a tail pointing and dragging it south. It's "almost" south enough to touch Antarctica. If you need more help, check an atlas.\n\nHope this helps!
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Africa, Asia, Australia...and I suppose Antarctica.
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What coast? Which country? What continent............?
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Greenland is the answer\n\nAt 840,000 square miles (2,175,590 km2), measurements....\n\nAlthough Australia also meets the definition of an island (a piece of land surrounded by water), it is large enough to be considered its own continent.
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Norway. \nThey are not in the European Union