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Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 inches) along the coast and far less inland. Only cold-adapted organisms survive there, including many types of algae, animals (for example mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades), bacteria, fungi, plants, and protista.
1. Antarctic Desert. Antarctica is the Largest Desert and Cold Desert in the World covers Area about 13,829,430 square kilometers, over 98% of the Antarctic is covered in Ice with 1.6 km in thickness. The Antarctic locate in South Pole, when its warming in the season the ice caps melts and most of the Place becomes Desert.