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Antarctic ice-sheet thickness

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is about 2.16 km thick on average according to reference figures from the Australian Antarctic Program and GFZ. The source list’s 2,133 m is close in scale, but it is not a universally exact value: the mean depends on the mapped boundary and whether floating ice shelves are included. The British Antarctic Survey gives 1,948 m for mean thickness including ice shelves.

Antarctic ice thickness varies across the continent.