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Antarctic Ice Sheet

The largest ice mass on Earth, formed as Antarctica froze around 34 million years ago; it locks up roughly 60% of the world's fresh water.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1820 CE mainstream
  first sighting of the Antarctic continent source
• 1911 CE mainstream
  Amundsen's party is first to reach the South Pole source
• 1998 CE mainstream
  the Vostok ice core yields a 420,000-year climate record source

Where

82.0000° S, 5.0000° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%27s_South_Pole_expedition
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station

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