Actually, Antarctica has a fair amount of land showing, more than
Greenland, but not as green. Despite all the visible H2O, they're
both deserts in terms of precipitation & humidity.
Tom
At 2000 July 11 - Tuesday 14:48, Sean Chan <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
spoke about *Re: [OM] OT:aussie v greenland: isl...* saying
> Gregg wrote:
> >
> > Also, Antartica is surrounded by water (ice) but isn't an island.
>
> That's probably because it's not "land" (well at least on the surface)
> ...so Antartica should be known as isice :-)??
>
> > Gregg
>
> Sean
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