Antarctica is technically classified as the largest desert on earth because it receives an average of only two inches of precipitation annually in its interior regions.

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Antarctica is technically classified as the largest desert on earth because it receives an average of only two inches of precipitation annually in its interior regions. People usually associate deserts with scorching heat and sand dunes, but science prefers to classify them by moisture, which makes this freezing wasteland the most ironically named geographical anomaly on the planet. Elite travelers now pay exorbitant amounts of money to sail through treacherous, ice-choked waters just to freeze their extremities off and look at some highly unimpressed penguins, proving that there is no climate harsh enough to keep a bored millionaire from trying to casually conquer it on a Tuesday