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.

A Christian pastor named Will Duffy flew 24 flat-Earthers and 24 globe-Earthers to Antarctica's Union Glacier at $35,000 a head in December 2024 and livestreamed the 24-hour sun for three days. Jeran Campanella - a YouTuber with 164,000 flat-Earth subscribers - watched the sun circle overhead and said on camera: "Sometimes, you're wrong in life." He stepped away from the movement.

Shackleton's ship Endurance was found in 2022, 3,000 meters down on the Antarctic seafloor - lost since 1915. The name still stood out across the stern. The freezing water had kept the wooden hull almost perfectly preserved for 107 years. Shackleton lost the ship in the ice - but all 28 men survived a 22-month ordeal and made it home.