It’s also the only continent without a southern coast.
For now. It used to a few million years ago and will again in another few million.
Are you referring to the magnetic pole switch? That happens every 200-1M years, according to patterns on the seafloor. It’s been estimated that the last reversal was 780,000 years ago, so it theoretically could be any day now.
With that being said, I doubt that humanity will agree to turn all maps 180° to correspond.
I was referring to continental drift. Places move a lot in under 200 million years. Eg https://youtu.be/uLahVJNnoZ4
So my post was a bit sarcastic that eventually it will have a coast but not on any time frame to matter to the human species. :)
Laschamp event! I just edited a related wiki page on late Pleistocene extinctions. Spoiler alert: it didn’t kill the megafauna.
Yeah, because you’ll fall off the bottom into space
Where Saddam
Long Earth theory.
How am I supposed to know how big that is? I don’t see a banana anywhere…
it’s too cold steel wool they don’t have bananas
Big if true
Wait what? Did we just find Hitler’s secret Antarctica base?
That’s the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
Nonsense! Did you see how big that thing is? Definitely Hitler!
According to this projection, it’s bigger than Africa
Can we talk about how big that structure is?
About three times the size of Europe it seems, one hell of a building.
Ok, but that’s unironically a great map for a TTRPG campaign.
I’m thinking Lovecraft. Plateau of Leng and all that. There’s just this huge, impassable land that goes south for what seems like forever. And…things…occasionally wander out of it.
My country holds a claim and permanent population to a portion of antartica.
Many have “claims”. None are valid though.
Yeah but the permanent population is there, sakd claim precedes the treaty.
You’re talking about penguins, right?
humans, in a town called “Villa las Estrellas”.
It seems that treaty: 1959, town: 1984.
The claim is older, 1940’s iirc
No bears, tho.
Serious Q: isn’t there actually a lot resources in Antarctica? Or is it just too difficult to set up shop there?
There certainly are, but…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
This treaty means the entire continent is for science only.
When you say resources what resources are you referring to specifically?
Penguin leather
Not sure but mineables? Im probably oversimplifying because all my knowledge of getting stuff out of the ground comes from games but stuff like metals.
You mean like ores like copper, iron, rare earths that kinda thing. There are seems of minerals that are actually meteorites that have collected in certain spots on a glacier. Haven’t heard anything about other large deposits but usually you would need to do all kinds of geological surveys to find that stuff and since most places are covered in 1mile+ of ice it’s near impossible.
And getting smaller everyday
I mean, show us the whole thing then!
It’s just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!
/s