| Antarctica Facts | - The continent covers an area of 13.2 million square kilometres
- It's the fifth largest continent but it has the smallest population (around 1000)
- The first known landing on the continent was in 1821 by a Russian expedition.
- Temperatures can reach -90 degrees celsius, it's the coldest place on earth
- An ice sheet 2.5 kilometres thick covers most of the continent
- Antarctica is technically a desert, it hardly ever rains at the Pole
- The international dialing code is +672
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Worcester explorer James Daly is fascinated by the tale of Scott and Amundsen's race for the South Pole. He's teamed up with three other British explorers to retrace Scott's fated footsteps. Watch the first part of his video diary
You can find out the scale of the challenge faced by this expedition by reading our special South Pole Challenge factfile
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