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Place Antarctica
Asked 8 times across 4 UPSC exams over 27 years (1998–2025), peaking in 2024.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 3 of 8 PYQs
- Most asked in 2024
- Recurs across 5 years (1998–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CSE 1998 → GEO 2021 → CDS 2024 → NDA 2024
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (5 of 8) are since 2016.
Related concepts
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
GEO2025
The global temperature and CO₂ concentration for the last eight lakh years were deduced mainly from which one of the following?
- A Fossil fuel
- B Tree annual ring
- C Ice coring in tropical mountain peaks
- D Ice coring in the Antarctic Plateau ✓
✓ Correct answer: (D)
Environment & Ecology › Climate Change
CDS2024
With reference to the continent of 'Antarctica' which of the following statements are correct ?
- It is larger than Europe in terms of area
- It has the highest average elevation as compared to all other continents
- Mt. Ross is the highest peak of this continent
- Waters of the Southern Ocean (West Wind Drift) move in an anticlockwise direction around it. Select the answer
using the code given below :
- A 1 and 2 only ✓
- B 1 and 3 only
- C 1, 2 and 3
- D 2, 3 and 4
✓ Correct answer: (A)
Geography › World Regional Geography
CDS2024
Which of the following statements regarding continent of Antarctica is/are correct?
- It has the highest average elevation as compared to all other continents
- Mount Vinson is the highest peak of this continent
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
- A 1 only
- B 2 only
- C Both 1 and 2 ✓
- D Neither 1 nor 2
✓ Correct answer: (C)
Geography › World Regional Geography
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