The Largest Desert in the World Has Penguins

Yes, really.

L.C. Bird
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Published in
2 min readAug 17, 2023

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It’s not the Kalahari, or the Arabian, or even the Sahara. You won’t see camels, or foxes, or scorpions. And for that matter, you probably shouldn’t wear sandals. Nope. The largest desert on the planet is in Antarctica.

Antarctica? What, really? How can that be?

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