Antarctica is not a continent, but an ice shelf/land mass more than 50 meters high that encloses the world's oceans. Antarctica is rightly often called "the end of the world". 

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There are many ships that have completed their voyage along the coast of Antarctica and measured the distance to about 111,000 km. The equator, which is said to be the widest part of the earth, measures 40,000 km...