How thick is the ice at the South Pole?

The dome of the polar ice cap is 4800 metres thick at its deepest point and the South Pole stands on top of 2.8 kilometres of ice. The average height of Antarctica is much higher than any other continent. Its average elevation is 2160 metres – considerably more than Asia, the next highest at about 1000 metres.

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