Antarctica
Antarctica is the coldest and driest place on Earth, and surrounds the South Pole. Tourist visits are costly, demand physical fitness, can only take place in summer, and are largely limited to the Peninsula, Islands and Ross Sea.Tap on the map to travel |
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Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Popular Destinations
Livingston Island
Photo: SnowSwan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Livingston Island is one of the South Shetland Islands, about 120 km north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Villa Las Estrellas
Photo: SnowSwan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula.
South Pole
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Geographic South Pole is the point where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the surface of the southern hemisphere, in the remote, bleak interior of Antarctica.
Destinations
Antarctic Peninsula
Photo: Cascoly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Antarctic Peninsula is the long mountainous peninsula projecting north from Antarctica.
Ross Sea
Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0.
The Ross Sea in Antarctica is the world's most southerly sea.
East Antarctica
Photo: Matthieu.weber, Public domain.
East Antarctica is the part of Antarctica that falls in the Eastern Hemisphere, east of the arbitrary line of 0° longitude on the South Africa-facing side down to the South Pole then 180° on the Australia-facing side.
West Antarctica
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
West Antarctica is the part of Antarctica that falls in the Western Hemisphere, west of the arbitrary line of 0° longitude on the South America-facing side down to the South Pole then 180° is the line on the Australia-facing side.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antarctica
- Type: Locality with 4,400 residents
- Description: polar continent in the Southern Hemisphere
- Categories: continent, region, terra nullius and part of the world
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-75° or 75° southLongitude of center
0°Population
4,400Area
14,000,000 km² (5,405,430 miles²)Elevation
2,481 metres (8,140 feet)Phone code
.aqOpenStreetMap ID
node 36966060OpenStreetMap Feature
place=continentGeoNames ID
6697173Wikidata ID
Q51Antarctica Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Antraktika
- Abkhazian: Антарктида
- Achinese: Antartika
- Adyghe: Антарктикэ
- Afar: Antarktika
- Afrikaans: Antarktika
- Akan: Antaateka
- Albanian: Antarktiku
- Albanian: Antarktikë
- Amharic: አንታርቲካ
- Amharic: አንታርክቲካ
- Angika: अंटार्कटिका
- Arabic: Antartika
- Arabic: أنتارتيكا
- Arabic: أنتاركتيكا
- Arabic: القارة القطبية الجنوبية
- Arabic: القارة المتجمدة الجنوبية
- Arabic: القطب الجنوبي
- Aragonese: Antarctida
- Armenian: Антарктида
- Armenian: Անթարքթիքա
- Armenian: Անտարկտիդա
- Arpitan: Antartica
- Assamese: এণ্টাৰ্কটিকা
- Assamese: এন্টাৰ্কটিকা
- Assamese: এন্টাৰ্টিকা
- Asturian: Antártida
- Asturian: L'Antártida
- Avaric: Antarktika
- Awadhi: अंटार्कटिका
- Azerbaijani: Antarktida
- Azerbaijani: Antarktika
- Balinese: Antartika
- Bashkir: Антарктида
- Bashkir: Антарктика
- Basque: Antartika
- Bavarian: Antarktika
- Belarusian: Антарктыда
- Belarusian: Антарктыка
- Bengali: অ্যান্টার্কটিকা
- Bengali: আন্টারটিকা
- Bengali: আন্টারটিকা মহাদেশ
- Bengali: আন্টার্কটিকা
- Bengali: এন্টার্কটিকা
- Bhojpuri: अंटार्कटिका
- Bhojpuri: एंटार्कटिका
- Bishnupriya: এন্টার্কটিকা
- Bislama: Antarktik
- Bosnian: Antarktik
- Bosnian: Antarktika
- Brahui: Anŧárkŧíká
- Breton: Antarktika
- Bulgarian: Антарктида
- Bulgarian: Антарктика
- Burmese: အန္တာတိက
- Burmese: အန်တာတိက
- Catalan: Antàrtic
- Catalan: Antàrtida
- Catalan: Continent antàrtic
- Cebuano: Antarctica
- Cebuano: Antartika
- Central Bikol: Antartika
- Central Kurdish: ئانتارکتیکا
- Central Kurdish: ئەنتارکتیکا
- Central Kurdish: کیشوەری بەستەڵەکی باشوور
- Chechen: Антарктида
- Cherokee: ᏧᏁᏍᏓᎸ
- Chinese: Lâm-ke̍k Tāi-lio̍k
- Chinese: 南极洲/南極洲
- Chinese: 南极洲
- Chinese: 南極洲
- Church Slavic: Антарктїка
- Chuvash: Антарктида
- Cornish: Antarktika
- Corsican: Antarticu
- Corsican: Antartide
- Crimean Tatar: Antarktida
- Croatian: Antarktik
- Croatian: Antarktika
- Croatian: Antartik
- Croatian: Antartika
- Czech: Antarktida
- Danish: Antarktis
- Dimli (individual language): Antarktika
- Dotyali: अन्टार्क्टिका
- Dutch: Antarctica
- Dzongkha: འཛམ་གླིང་ལྷོ་མཐའི་ཁྱགས་གླིང
- Dzongkha: ཨེན་ཊཱག་ཊི་ཀ
- Dzongkha: ཨེན་ཊཱག་ཊི་ཀ་
- Eastern Mari: Антарктида
- Eastern Mari: Антарктиде
- Egyptian Arabic: انتاركتيكا
- English: Antarctic Selection
- Esperanto: Antarktio
- Esperanto: Antarkto
- Estonian: Antarktika
- Estonian: Antarktis
- Ewe: Antartica nutome
- Extremaduran: Antáltia
- Faroese: Antarktis
- Fiji Hindi: Antarctica
- Finnish: Antarktis
- Finnish: Etelämanner
- French: Antarctique
- French: continent austral
- French: continent blanc
- Friulian: Antartic
- Galician: A Antártida
- Galician: Antártida
- Galician: نسا تۊک
- Gan Chinese: 南極洲
- Georgian: ანტარქტიდა
- Georgian: ანტარქტიკა
- German: Antarktika
- German: Antarktis
- German: Südkontinent
- German: antarktischer Kontinent
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Antarctic
- Gilaki: نسا توک
- Goan Konkani: अंटार्क्टिका
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌺𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌰
- Greek: Ανταρκτική
- Guarani: Antártida
- Guianese Creole French: Antarktik
- Gujarati: ઍન્ટાર્કટિકા
- Gujarati: એન્ટાર્કટિકા
- Haitian: Antatik
- Hakka Chinese: Nàm-khi̍t-chû
- Hausa: Antatika
- Hausa: Nàm-khi̍t-chû
- Hausa: ʻAneʻālika
- Hawaiian: ʻAneʻālika
- Hebrew: אנטארקטיקה
- Hindi: अंटार्कटिका
- Hungarian: Antarktika
- Hungarian: Antarktisz
- Icelandic: Suðurskautslandið
- Ido: Antarktika
- Igbo: Antarctica
- Iloko: Antartika
- Inari Sami: Antarktis
- Indonesian: Antarktika
- Indonesian: Antartika
- Indonesian: Kutub selatan
- Ingush: Антарктида
- Interlingua: Antarctica
- Interlingue: Antarctic
- Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᑎᐅᕆᐅ
- Irish: An Antartaice
- Irish: Antartach
- Irish: Antartaice
- Italian: Antartide
- Jamaican Creole English: Antaatika
- Japanese: 南極
- Japanese: 南極大陸
- Javanese: Antarktika
- Javanese: Antartika
- Kabiyè: Antarɩtiki tɛtʋ wandamm
- Kabyle: Tantarktit
- Kalaallisut: Qalasersuaq Kujalleq
- Kalmyk: Антарктик
- Kannada: ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ
- Kannada: ಅಂಟಾರ್ಟಿಕಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Antarktika
- Karachay-Balkar: Антарктида
- Kashmiri: اینٹارٹِکا
- Kashubian: Antarktida
- Kazakh: Антарктида
- Kazakh: Антарктика
- Khmer: អង់តាក់ទិក
- Kinaray-A: Antartida
- Kinyarwanda: Antarigitika
- Kirghiz: Aнтapктидa
- Kirghiz: Антарктида
- Komi-Permyak: Антарктида
- Korean: 남극
- Korean: 남극 대륙
- Kotava: Antarktika
- Kurdish: Antarktîka
- Kurdish: ئانتارکتیکا
- Kölsch: Süüdpool
- Ladin: Antartida
- Ladino: Antartika
- Lao: Antartika
- Lao: ທະວີບອັງຕາກຕິກ
- Lao: ແອນຕາດຕິກາ
- Latin: Antarctica
- Latvian: Antarktika
- Latvian: Antarktīda
- Lezghian: Антарктида
- Ligurian: Antartigo
- Limburgan: Antarctica
- Lingala: Antarctique
- Lingua Franca Nova: Antartica
- Literary Chinese: 南極洲
- Lithuanian: Antarktida
- Lithuanian: Antarktis
- Livvi: Antarktidu
- Lojban: ziptu'a
- Lombard: Antartid
- Low German: Antarktika
- Low German: Antarktis
- Lower Sorbian: Antarktika
- Luxembourgish: Antarktika
- Luxembourgish: Antarktis
- Macedo-Romanian: Antarctica
- Macedonian: Антарктик
- Maithili: अंटार्कटिका
- Malagasy: Antarktika
- Malagasy: Antartika
- Malay: Antarctica
- Malay: Antartika
- Malayalam: അന്റാർട്ടിക്ക
- Malayalam: അന്റാര്ട്ടിക്ക
- Maltese: Antarktika
- Maltese: Antartika
- Maltese: l-Antartika
- Manx: Yn Antarctagh
- Maori: Te Kōpakatanga ki te Tonga
- Maori: Te Tiri o Te Moana
- Maori: Tiri o te Moana
- Marathi: अंटार्क्टिका
- Mazanderani: جنوبگان
- Min Dong Chinese: Nàng-gĭk-ciŭ
- Min Nan Chinese: Lâm-ke̍k-chiu
- Min Nan Chinese: Lâm-ke̍k-tāi-lio̍k
- Min Nan Chinese: Lâm-ke̍k Tāi-lio̍k
- Minangkabau: Antartika
- Mingrelian: ანტარქტიდა
- Mirandese: Antártica
- Moksha: Антарктидась
- Mon: အန္တာတိက
- Mongolian: Антарктид
- Mongolian: အန္တာတိက
- Moroccan Arabic: أنطاركتيكا
- Narom: Antarctique
- Navajo: Shádiʼááhjí kéyah yistinígíí
- Neapolitan: Antartide
- Nepali: अन्टारटिका
- Nepali: अन्टारतिका
- Nepali: अन्टार्क्टिका
- Nepali: एन्टार्टिका
- Newari: एन्टार्टिका
- Northern Frisian: Antarktikaa
- Northern Sami: Antárktis
- Norwegian: Antarktika
- Norwegian: Antarktis
- Norwegian Bokmål: Antarktika
- Norwegian Bokmål: Antarktis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Antarktis
- Novial: Antarktika
- Occitan (post 1500): Antartica
- Occitan (post 1500): Antartida
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܢܛܐܪܩܛܝܩܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Antarctica
- Oriya: ଆଣ୍ଟର୍କଟିକା
- Oriya: ଆଣ୍ଟାର୍କାଟିକା
- Oriya: ଆର୍ଣ୍ଟକଟିକା
- Oromo: Antaarkitikaa
- Ossetian: Антарктидæ
- Pa'o Karen: အာတန်တိက
- Pampanga: Antartida
- Pampanga: Antartika
- Panjabi: ਅੰਟਾਰਕਟਿਕਾ
- Papiamento: Antártika
- Pedi: Antarctica
- Persian: جنوبگان
- Persian: قاره جنوبگان
- Picard: Intarctike
- Picard: Intarktike
- Piemontese: Antàrtide
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Antartica
- Polish: Antarktyda
- Polish: Antarktyka
- Pontic: Ανταρκτικήν
- Portuguese: Antártica
- Portuguese: Antártida
- Portuguese: continente austral
- Pushto: انتارکتيکا
- Pushto: انتارکتیکا
- Pushto: انټارټيکا
- Pushto: انټارکټيکا
- Quechua: Antartika
- Quechua: Antártida
- Romanian: Antarctica
- Romanian: Antarctida
- Romansh: Antarctica
- Russia Buriat: Антарктида
- Russia Buriat: Антарктика
- Russian: Антарктида
- Rusyn: Антарктіда
- Samoan: Anetatika
- Samogitian: Antarktėda
- Sanskrit: अण्टार्क्टिका
- Santali: ᱟᱱᱴᱟᱨᱠᱚᱴᱤᱠᱟ
- Saraiki: انٹارکٹیکا
- Sardinian: Antàrticu
- Saterfriesisch: Antarktikoa
- Scots: Antarcticae
- Scottish Gaelic: An Antartaig
- Scottish Gaelic: Antargtaga
- Serbian: Антарктик
- Serbian: Антарктика
- Serbian: Антартик
- Serbian: Арктик
- Serbo-Croatian: Antarktik
- Serbo-Croatian: Antarktika
- Serbo-Croatian: Süüdpool
- Shan: Antarctica
- Shan: ဢႅၼ်ႇတၢၵ်ႈတီးၵႃႈ
- Shona: Antarctica
- Shona: Anthakitika
- Sicilian: Antàrtidi
- Silesian: Antarktyda
- Sindhi: انٽارڪٽيڪا
- Sinhala: ඇන්ටාක්ටිකාව
- Skolt Sami: Saujjnannâm
- Slovak: Antarctica
- Slovak: Antarktída
- Slovenian: Antarktika
- Slovenian: bela celina
- Somali: Antaarktika
- Somali: Antarktika
- Somali: Antiarktis
- South Azerbaijani: آنتارکتیکا
- South Azerbaijani: جنوبی قوطب
- Spanish: Antártica
- Spanish: Antártica o Antártida
- Spanish: Antártico
- Spanish: Antártida
- Spanish: Antártida o Antártica
- Spanish: continente antártico
- Spanish: continente austral
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⵏⵜⴰⵔⴽⵜⵉⴽⴰ
- Sundanese: Antartika
- Swahili: Antaktika
- Swahili: Antaktiki
- Swahili: Bara la Antaktiki
- Swedish: Antarktis
- Swiss German: Antarktika
- Tachelhit: Antarktika
- Tagalog: Antarctica
- Tagalog: Antartida
- Tajik: Антарктида
- Talysh: Antraktidə
- Talysh: Qutbi kəfşənon
- Tamil: அண்டார்க்டிக்கா
- Tamil: அண்டார்டிகா
- Tamil: அண்டார்டிக்கா
- Tamil: அண்டார்ட்டிக்கா
- Tamil: அந்தாட்டிக்கா
- Tamil: அன்டார்க்டிக்கா
- Tamil: அன்டார்டிகா
- Tamil: அன்டார்ட்டிகா
- Tatar: Antarqtida
- Tatar: Антарктида
- Tatar: Антарктика
- Telugu: అంటార్కటికా
- Telugu: అంటార్కిటికా
- Tetum: Antártida
- Thai: Antarctica
- Thai: ทวีปแอนตาร์กติก
- Thai: ทวีปแอนตาร์กติกา
- Thai: แอนตาร์กติก
- Thai: แอนตาร์กติกา
- Tibetan: ལྷོ་མཐའི་གླིང་།
- Tibetan: ལྷོ་རྩེའི་མཐའ་གླིང་།
- Tigrinya: አንታርክቲካ
- Tigrinya: ኣንታርክቲካ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻAnetātika
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻAnitātika
- Tosk Albanian: Antarktika
- Tsonga: Antakthika
- Tulu: ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ
- Turkish: Antarktika
- Turkish: Antarktika kıtası
- Turkmen: Antarktika
- Tyap: A̱ntati̱ka
- Uighur: ئانتاركتىدا
- Uighur: ئانتاركتىكا
- Ukrainian: Антарктида
- Ukrainian: Антарктика
- Upper Sorbian: Antarktika
- Urdu: انٹارکٹکا
- Urdu: انٹارکٹیکا
- Uzbek: Antarktida
- Venetian: Antàrtede
- Venetian: Antàrtide
- Veps: Antarktid
- Vietnamese: Châu Nam Cực
- Vietnamese: Nam Cực
- Vlaams: Antarctica
- Võro: Antarktis
- Walloon: Antartike
- Waray (Philippines): Antartika
- Welsh: Antarctica
- Welsh: Yr Antarctig
- Western Armenian: Անթարքթիքա
- Western Frisian: Antarctica
- Western Frisian: Antarktika
- Western Panjabi: انٹارکٹکا
- Wolof: Antarktik
- Wolof: Goxub Dottub Bëj-saalum
- Wu Chinese: 南極洲
- Yakut: Антарктика
- Yiddish: אַנטאַרקטיקע
- Yiddish: אנטארקטיקע
- Yoruba: Antakítíkà
- Yoruba: Antárktìkà
- Yue Chinese: 南極洲
- Zeeuws: Antartica
- Zhuang: Namzgigcouh
- Zulu: I-Antatika
- Zulu: i-Antarctica
- Antartego
- Antartikaq
- ma Antasika
- អង់តាកទិក
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