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Earth's southernmost continent
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated 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, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).
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A remote island near Antarctica is no longer home to the world’s largest penguin colony as climate-driven changes to ocean food chains likely devastated its once-thriving inhabitants, a new study said on Oct. 7.
The volcanic island of Zavodovski lost more than 680,000 of its chinstrap penguins between 2011 and 2025, according to the British Antarctic Survey.
The population of chinstrap penguins on the volcanic island of Zavodovski in the South Atlantic has declined sharply. Scientists link the drop to rising ocean temperatures and declining krill avail