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Antarctica is the continent that surrounds the South Pole. This cold, barren land covers about five million square miles — that’s about 11/2 times as big as the United States. Yet except for only a few hundred square miles along the coast, the entire continent is continually covered with ice. No, we can’t really call a continent
