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Photo Gallery: Antarctica

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Icicles drape the sides of an iceberg in the waters around Antarctica. Fifth-largest of the world's continents, Antarctica comprises 5,500,000 square miles (14,245,000 square kilometers) of snow-topped glaciers and ice sheets with less than 5 percent ice-free. Photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins