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LIFTING THE LID ON ANTARCTICA
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What was the coldest continent like without ice?

Antarctica hasn't always been a cold desert. For around 100 million years the southernmost continent was covered by lush rainforests and roamed by dinosaurs. Like all of the continents, the landmass of Antarctica sits on one of the seven major plates of Earth's crust. The heat generated by the core of our planet causes these plates to slowly move around the globe at a rate of around 1.5 centimetres per year. Throughout over 4-billion-years of Earth's history, the continents have found themselves in different orientations. Around 200 million years ago Antarctica was a long way from the South Pole and sat near the equator, shoulder to shoulder with Africa, South America and Australia. These continents formed a giant landmass known as Gondwanaland. Without a shard of ice in sight, Antarctica was a warm, rainforest-laden continent that looked more like modern-day New Zealand.

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