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The polar plateau in Antarctica is a vast, flat region that covers a large part of the continent. It is located in the interior of Antarctica, around the South Pole, and is characterized by extremely cold temperatures and high elevations. The plateau is covered in thick ice sheets that can reach several kilometers in thickness.
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What is the highest condition that makes Antarctica?
The highest condition in Antarctica is the polar plateau, which is a vast, flat expanse of ice that covers the interior of the continent. This region can reach elevations over 10,000 feet above sea level.
What is the strongest wind at Mawson station in Antarctica?
Yes. Antarctic winds are katabatic, and fall from the polar plateau to sea level, pulled by gravity and cold air seeking its low level. Antarctica is the highest continent -- and the windiest content. There is no continent in the Arctic to produce such winds.
What continent lies at the South Pole?
The South Pole is a point on the polar plateau of the continent of Antarctica.The South Pole is located on the Antarctic Continent.
How do tropical plants grow in Antarctica?
There are no tropical plants in Antarctica. Antarctica is a polar continent and essentially nothing grows there.
What tectonic plate is the South Pole on?
The South Pole is located on the polar plateau.
Were is the polar plateau in Antarctica?
the polar plateau is east of the transantarctic mountains
Which pole is located on on a continent?
The South Pole is located on the polar plateau of the continent of Antarctica.
What is a name of a plateu in Antarctica?
You may be thinking of the Polar Plateau.
Is Antarctica closer to the North Pole or South Pole?
The South Pole is an imaginary point on the Polar Plateau of Antarctica.
Is there any plateau in Antarctica?
You may be thinking of the polar plateau, which is a flat expanse of ice. The polar plateau offers the longest earthly sight-light to the horizon -- the curvature of the earth -- which is about eight miles. Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet, with its beaches and some nunataks exposed. Any plateau with be ice.
What is the high flat area of land near the middle of antarctica called?
All 'high, flat pieces of land' in Antarctica are covered with ice. One notable flat area of ice is called the polar plateau.
Is Antarctica rocky or flat?
Antarctica is a mountainous continent -- the highest continent on earth. There are flat areas, however, where ice covers the continent, notably the polar plateau.
Is Antarctica a plateau?
There is a significant plateau, called the Polar Plateau -- with the longest horizon on earth (about eight miles) that surrounds the geographic south pole. The plateau is made of ice. The continent however, is the highest continent on earth thanks to its many mountains and mountain ranges.
Does antarctica have a polar climate?
Antarctica does have a polar climate.
Why is Antarctica the coldest and windiest continent?
Antarctica is cold because it lacks sunlight during the winter months. Antarctica is windy based on Katabatic winds that flow downhill from the polar plateau -- about two miles high, and that are powered by the rotation of the earth.
Why is Antarctica sometimes called the home of the wild?
There may be a typo in your question. Antarctica is often called home of the wind, because of the strong, constant Katabatic winds that blow to the coasts from high on the polar plateau.
Can you get blizzards in antarctica?
Blizzards are constant on the Antarctic continent, specifically caused by Katabatic winds that blow off the polar plateau, and which are driven by the rotation of the Earth.
