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Also, what is the relative sea level for this map - is it the same as the current one or what it will be like after the ice melts



if all the ice in antarctic melted (and nothing else happened), it would cause sea levels in antarctic to fall. That's because all the ice currently there exerts enough of a gravitation pull to increase sea levels there now. That being said there would be other things like the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and thermal expansion of the oceans that would be acting to increase the sea level.




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