Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.

Popular Culture

Appearances

Variants

The following list is of explicit appearances of Antarctica.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1838	Antarctic regions	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, author Edgar Allan Poe	Young seaman Arthur Gordon Pym and sailor Dirk Peters are rescued by the ship Jane Guy, which, at Pym's request, bears south to the unexplored Antarctic regions. The ship opens up trade with natives of the continent, lead by the chief Too-Wit, before they betray them, leaving Pym and Peters the only survivors.
1888	The Antarctic Continent	A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, author James De Mille	In 1843, English sailor Adam More is abandoned by the Trevelyan in the Southern Ocean. He subsequently discovers a lost civilisation, the Kosekin, hidden in Antarctica. Sir James Clark Ross is mentioned.
1936	Antarctica	At the Mountains of Madness, author H. P. Lovecraft	Miskatonic University professor of geology William Dyer leads a doomed expedition that uncovers an ancient, inhuman civilisation once existed on the southern continent.
1938	Antarctica	Who Goes There?, author John W. Campbell	Meteorologist McReady leads the men of Big Magnet through a process of divining who amongst their fellow scientists have been replaced by things from another world.
1966	Antarctica	Doctor Who, "The Tenth Planet"	The First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Anneke Wills) find the TARDIS has landed in Antarctica, 1986, at the Snowcap space tracking station. There, they uncover the arrival in the starry sky of the planet Mondas- and its inhabitants, the Cybermen.
1976	Antarctica	Doctor Who, "The Seeds of Doom"	The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) investigate the appearance of an apparent Krynoid on the continent.
1999	Antarctica	Atlantis Found, author Clive Cussler	NUMA operatives Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino uncover a plot by CEO Karl Wolf to initiate the Fourth Reich involving the lost continent of Atlantis.

Links

• Antarctica on Wikipedia
• Antarctica on Encyclopædia Britannica
• Antarctica on TV Tropes