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Antarctic ice sheet, an Uncommon card
The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres and an average thickness of over 2 kilometres.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 85,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is the largest of Earth's two current ice sheets, containing 26.5 million cubic kilometres of ice, which is equivalent to 61% of all fresh water on Earth.
- Its surface is nearly continuous, and the only ice-free areas on the continent are the dry valleys, nunataks of the Antarctic mountain ranges, and sparse coastal bedrock.
- It is often subdivided into the Antarctic Peninsula, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, due to the large differences in glacier mass balance, ice flow, and topography between the three regions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Antarctic ice sheet article was read about 85,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Antarctic ice sheet (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.



