Antarctica Facts

Researchers find new emperor penguin colonies by looking for their poop from a satellite in space.

If Antarctica's ice sheets melted completely, global sea levels would rise by approximately 58 to 60 metres (190-197 ft), enough to submerge most coastal cities worldwide.

There's a lake under Antarctica that is 15-25 million years old called Lake Vostok.

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

In 1961, the only surgeon in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Leonid Rogozov, removed his own inflamed appendix under local anesthesia.

Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica is one of the most remote permanent settlements on Earth, complete with a school, post office, and hospital serving the roughly 100 residents who brave temperatures as low as -47°C.