Michael Plowman, Age 10, Of West Scarboro, Mt.., For His Question:

Is there land under the Antarctic Ice?

The south polar region is blanketed under a vast ice sheet that covers about five million square miles. The glaciers of the north and other parts of the world all rest on solid ground, and for a long time the experts took it for granted that the ice sheet of Antarctica also rests upon solid land.. But not so long ago they were forced to change their minds

A great slab of Antarctic  ice broke away and floated off into the sea  and there was no solid ground below it. The experts got busy and began testing the ice field in other places. The tremendous job is not finished, and we cannot show a detailed map of

Antarctica but it is not an, unbroken continent. Some parts of the great ice field rest on solid land and some do not.