Antarctica UK /ˌænˈtɑːktɪkə/US /æntˈɑɹ(k)tɪkə/ noun1 •The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres. — 1988
