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OneCrazyDiamond

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6. This has it
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 05:42 PM
Jun 2014


http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question473.htm

At first I thought you meant 60 cm.


The main ice covered landmass is Antarctica at the South Pole, with about 90 percent of the world's ice (and 70 percent of its fresh water). Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) thick. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37°C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing.

Not the best source, I know.

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