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Antarctica

The continent on a relief globe, with its ice and the Antarctic Treaty area.

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FIG 1 · Antarctica
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Zones over sea-floor and land relief · Terrain TilesRisk values when released
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Area km² by zone, in quantile fifths among the zones shown. Source observations, not index values. Boundaries, names and zones are shown as recorded by their sources, for location only. They take no position on the status of any territory, on any claim or on the delimitation of any boundary.
12,258,370
km²
60° S
treaty limit
Natural Earth
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Openbare domein
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Antarctica

Area

12,258,370 km²

The continent and its ice shelves as mapped by Natural Earth.

People

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On the GHSL 2025 grid; research stations are seasonal.

Treaty area

South of 60° S

The area of the Antarctic Treaty, reserved for peace and science.

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Sources, credits and licences

Natural Earth
Made with Natural Earth (1:10m admin-0 map units, public domain) · source
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Position
Boundaries, names and zones are shown as recorded by their sources, for location only. They take no position on the status of any territory, on any claim or on the delimitation of any boundary.