What's The Largest Cold Desert In The World
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The Antarctic Polar Desert, covering most of Antarctica, is the largest desert in the world.
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It is defined by extremely low precipitation, making it the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, despite its ice cover.
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It's the largest desert overall, dwarfing other deserts, including the Arctic Desert (second largest) and the hot Sahara.
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It is dominated by massive ice sheets and ice flats, holding most of the Earth's freshwater.
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It is home to penguins, seals, whales, and seabirds, with almost no terrestrial vegetation.
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It is classified as a desert due to its extreme lack of precipitation, not lack of water (ice).
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It is one of the windiest places due to cold, dense air flowing downhill from the high plateau, creating intense katabatic winds.
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