Antarctica

Antarctica is the coldest and driest place on Earth, and surrounds the . Tourist visits are costly, demand physical fitness, can only take place in summer, and are largely limited to the Peninsula, Islands and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Livingston Island and Villa Las Estrellas.

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is one of the…

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is a civilian settlement…

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Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Antarctic Peninsula and Ross Sea.

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The is the long mountainous peninsula projecting north from Antarctica.

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The in Antarctica is the world's most southerly sea.

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is the part of Antarctica that falls…

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is the part of Antarctica that falls…
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Antarctica

  • Type: Locality with 4,400 residents
  • Description: terrestrial continent in the Southern Hemisphere
  • Also known as: “Antarktika kıtası”, “Antarktio”, “antarktische Kontinent”, “antarktischer Kontinent”, “Antàrtic”, “Antártica o Antártida”, “Antártico”, “Antártida o Antártica”, “Antartidah”, “Antartik”, “AQ”, “ATA”, “Aнтapктидa”, “bela celina”, “Continent antàrtic”, “continent austral”, “continent blanc”, “continente antártico”, “continente austral”, “Lâm-ke̍k-chiu”, “Lâm-ke̍k-tāi-lio̍k”, “Nam Cực châu”, “Südkontinent”, “Te Kōpakatanga ki te Tonga”, “Te Tiri o Te Moana”, “Антартик”, “Арктик”, “أنتارتيكا”, “ئەنتارکتیکا”, “القارة المتجمدة الجنوبية”, “انټارکټيکا”, “قاره جنوبگان”, “አንታርቲካ”, “एंटार्कटिका”, “আন্টারটিকা”, “আন্টারটিকা মহাদেশ”, “আন্টার্কটিকা”, “அண்டார்க்டிக்கா”, “அண்டார்டிக்கா”, “அண்டார்ட்டிக்கா”, “அன்டார்டிகா”, “அன்டார்ட்டிகா”, “ทวีปแอนตาร์กติก”, and “แอนตาร์กติก”
  • Categories: continent, region, terra nullius, part of the world, and geographic location
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Latitude of center
-75° or 75° south
Longitude of center
0°
Population
4,400
Area
14,000,000 km² (5,405,430 miles²)
Elevation
2,481 metres (8,140 feet)
Internet domain
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Open­Street­Map ID
node 36966060
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­continent
Geo­Names ID
6697173
Wiki­data ID
Q51
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Antarctica” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Антарктида”
  • Achinese: “Antartika”
  • Adyghe: “Антарктикэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Antarktika”
  • Albanian: “Antarktikë”
  • Albanian: “Antarktiku”
  • Amharic: “አንታርክቲካ”
  • Angika: “अंटार्कटिका”
  • Arabic: “أنتاركتيكا”
  • Arabic: “القارة القطبية الجنوبية”
  • Arabic: “القطب الجنوبي”
  • Aragonese: “Antarctida”
  • Armenian: “Антарктида”
  • Armenian: “Անտարկտիդա”
  • Arpitan: “Antartica”
  • Assamese: “এণ্টাৰ্কটিকা”
  • Assamese: “এন্টাৰ্কটিকা”
  • Assamese: “এন্টাৰ্টিকা”
  • Asturian: “L’Antártida”
  • Awadhi: “अंटार्कटिका”
  • Azerbaijani: “Antarktida”
  • Azerbaijani: “Antarktika”
  • Balinese: “Antartika”
  • Bashkir: “Антарктида”
  • Bashkir: “Антарктика”
  • Basque: “Antartika”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Antartika”
  • Bavarian: “Antarktika”
  • Belarusian: “Антарктыда”
  • Belarusian: “Антарктыка”
  • Bengali: “অ্যান্টার্কটিক”
  • Bengali: “অ্যান্টার্কটিকা”
  • Bengali: “এন্টার্কটিকা”
  • Betawi: “Benua Kutub Kidul”
  • Bhojpuri: “अंटार्कटिका”
  • Bishnupriya: “এন্টার্কটিকা”
  • Bislama: “Antarktik”
  • Bislama: “Antatik”
  • Bosnian: “Antarktik”
  • Bosnian: “Antarktika”
  • Brahui: “Anŧárkŧíká”
  • Breton: “Antarktika”
  • Bulgarian: “Антарктида”
  • Bulgarian: “Антарктика”
  • Burmese: “အန္တာတိက”
  • Burmese: “အန်တာတိက”
  • Catalan: “Antàrtida”
  • Cebuano: “Antarctica”
  • Cebuano: “Antartika”
  • Central Bikol: “Antartika”
  • Central Kanuri: “Antarctica”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئانتارکتیکا”
  • Chechen: “Антарктида”
  • Cherokee: “ᏧᏁᏍᏓᎸ”
  • Cheyenne: “Antarctica”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Emilian: “Antàrtid”
  • Esperanto: “Antarkto”
  • Estonian: “Antarktika”
  • Estonian: “Antarktis”
  • Ewe: “Antartica nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Antáltia”
  • Extremaduran: “Antártica”
  • Faroese: “Antarktis”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Antarctica”
  • Finnish: “Antarktis”
  • Finnish: “Etelämanner”
  • French: “Antarctique”
  • Friulian: “Antartic”
  • Galician: “A Antártida”
  • Galician: “Antártida”
  • Gan Chinese: “南極洲”
  • Georgian: “ანტარქტიდა”
  • Georgian: “ანტარქტიკა”
  • German: “Antarktika”
  • German: “Antarktis”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Antarctic”
  • Gilaki: “نسا توک”
  • Gilaki: “نسا تۊک”
  • 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”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAneʻālika”
  • Hebrew: “אנטארקטיקה”
  • Hindi: “अंटार्कटिका”
  • Hungarian: “Antarktika”
  • Hungarian: “Antarktisz”
  • Iban: “Antartika”
  • Icelandic: “Suðurskautslandið”
  • Ido: “Antarktika”
  • Igbo: “Antarctica”
  • Iloko: “Antartika”
  • Inari Sami: “Antarktis”
  • Indonesian: “Antarktika”
  • Ingush: “Антарктида”
  • Interlingua: “Antarctica”
  • Interlingue: “Antarctic”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐋᓐᑎᐅᕆᐅ”
  • Inupiaq: “Antartikaq”
  • Irish: “an Antartaice”
  • Irish: “An Antartaice”
  • Irish: “Antartach”
  • Irish: “Antartaice”
  • Italian: “Antartide”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Antaatika”
  • Japanese: “Nankyoku Tairiku”
  • Japanese: “なんきょくたいりく”
  • Japanese: “南極”
  • Japanese: “南極大陸”
  • Javanese: “Antarktika”
  • Javanese: “Antartika”
  • Jèrriais: “Antarctique”
  • Jju: “A̱ntatika”
  • Kabiyè: “Antarɩtiki tɛtʋ wandamm”
  • Kabyle: “Antraktika”
  • Kabyle: “Tantarktit”
  • Kalaallisut: “Qalasersuaq Kujalleq”
  • Kalmyk: “Антарктик”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಟಾರ್ಟಿಕಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Antarktida”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Antarktika”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Антарктида”
  • Kashmiri: “انٹارکٹِکا”
  • Kashmiri: “اینٹارٹِکا”
  • Kashubian: “Antarktida”
  • Kazakh: “Антарктида”
  • Kazakh: “Антарктика”
  • Khmer: “អង់តាកទិក”
  • Khmer: “អង់តាក់ទិក”
  • Kinaray-A: “Antartida”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Antarigitika”
  • Kirghiz: “Антарктида”
  • Kölsch: “Süüdpool”
  • Komering: “Antartika”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Антарктида”
  • Korean: “남극 대륙”
  • Korean: “남극”
  • Kotava: “Antarktika”
  • Kurdish: “Antarktîka”
  • Kurdish: “ئانتارکتیکا”
  • Ladin: “Antartida”
  • Ladino: “Antartika”
  • Lao: “ທະວີບອັງຕາກຕິກ”
  • Lao: “ແອນຕາດຕິກາ”
  • Latin: “Antarctica”
  • Latvian: “Antarktīda”
  • Latvian: “Antarktika”
  • Lezghian: “Антарктида”
  • Ligurian: “Antartego”
  • 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”
  • Madurese: “Antarktika”
  • Magahi: “अण्टार्कटिका”
  • Maithili: “अंटार्कटिका”
  • Maithili: “अन्टार्क्टिका”
  • Malagasy: “Antarktika”
  • Malagasy: “Antartika”
  • Malay: “Antarctica”
  • Malay: “Antartika”
  • Malayalam: “അന്‍റാര്‍ട്ടിക്ക”
  • Malayalam: “അന്റാർട്ടിക്ക”
  • Maltese: “Antartika”
  • Maltese: “l-Antartika”
  • Manx: “Yn Antarctagh”
  • Maori: “Tiri o te Moana”
  • Marathi: “अंटार्क्टिका”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوبگان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nàng-gĭk-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-ke̍k Tāi-lio̍k”
  • Minangkabau: “Antarktika”
  • Minangkabau: “Antartika”
  • Mingrelian: “ანტარქტიდა”
  • Mirandese: “Antártica”
  • Moksha: “Антарктидась”
  • Mon: “အန္တာတိက”
  • Mongolian: “Антарктид”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أنطاركتيكا”
  • Navajo: “Shádiʼááhjí kéyah yistinígíí”
  • Neapolitan: “Antartide”
  • Nepali: “अन्टारटिका”
  • Nepali: “अन्टारतिका”
  • Nepali: “अन्टार्क्टिका”
  • Newari: “एन्टार्टिका”
  • Northern Frisian: “Antarktikaa”
  • Northern Sami: “Antárktis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Antarktika”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Antarktis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Antarktis”
  • Norwegian: “Antarktika”
  • Norwegian: “Antarktis”
  • Novial: “Antarktika”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Antartica”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Antartida”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܢܛܐܪܩܛܝܩܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūðarcticland”
  • Oriya: “ଆଣ୍ଟର୍କଟିକା”
  • Oriya: “ଆଣ୍ଟାର୍କାଟିକା”
  • Oriya: “ଆର୍ଣ୍ଟକଟିକା”
  • Oromo: “Antaarkitikaa”
  • Ossetian: “Антарктидæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အန်တာတိက”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အာတန်တိက”
  • Pampanga: “Antartida”
  • Pampanga: “Antartika”
  • Panjabi: “ਅੰਟਾਰਕਟਿਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Antártika”
  • Pedi: “Antarctica”
  • Persian: “جنوبگان”
  • Picard: “Intarctike”
  • Picard: “Intarktike”
  • Piemontese: “Antàrtide”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Antartica”
  • Polish: “Antarktyda”
  • Polish: “Antarktyka”
  • Pontic: “Ανταρκτικήν”
  • Portuguese: “Antártida”
  • Pushto: “انتارکتيکا”
  • Pushto: “انتارکتیکا”
  • Pushto: “انټارټيکا”
  • Quechua: “Antártida”
  • Quechua: “Antartika”
  • Romanian: “Antarctica”
  • Romanian: “Antarctida”
  • Romansh: “Antarctica”
  • Russia Buriat: “Антарктида”
  • Russia Buriat: “Антарктика”
  • Russian: “Антарктида”
  • Rusyn: “Антарктіда”
  • Sakizaya: “Nan-ci-cow”
  • 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”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Antarktik”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Antaarktika”
  • Somali: “Antarktika”
  • Somali: “Antiarktis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آنتارکتیکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جنوبی قوطب”
  • Spanish: “Antártida”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵏⵜⴰⵔⴽⵜⵉⴽⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Antartika”
  • Swahili: “Antaktika”
  • Swahili: “Antaktiki”
  • Swahili: “Bara la Antaktiki”
  • Swedish: “Antarktis”
  • Swiss German: “Antarktika”
  • Tachelhit: “Antarktika”
  • Tagalog: “Antarctica”
  • Tagalog: “Antartika”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥟᥦᥢᥱ ᥖᥣᥐ ᥖᥤᥱ ᥐᥣᥱ”
  • Tajik: “Антарктида”
  • Talysh: “Antarktidə”
  • Talysh: “Qutbi kəfşənon”
  • Tamil: “அண்டார்டிகா”
  • Tamil: “அந்தாட்டிக்கா”
  • Tamil: “அன்டார்க்டிக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Antarqtida”
  • Tatar: “Антарктида”
  • Tatar: “Антарктика”
  • Telugu: “అంటార్కటికా”
  • Telugu: “అంటార్కిటికా”
  • Tetum: “Antártida”
  • Thai: “ทวีปแอนตาร์กติกา”
  • Thai: “แอนตาร์กติกา”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷོ་མཐའི་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷོ་རྩེའི་མཐའ་གླིང་།”
  • Tigrinya: “አንታርክቲካ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣንታርክቲካ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAnetātika”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAnitātika”
  • Tsonga: “Antakthika”
  • Tulu: “ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ”
  • Turkish: “Antarktika”
  • Turkmen: “Antarktika”
  • Twi: “Antaateka”
  • Tyap: “A̱ntati̱ka”
  • Udmurt: “Антарктида”
  • 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: “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: “אנטארקטיקע”
  • Yiddish: “אַנטאַרקטיקע”
  • Yoruba: “Antakítíkà”
  • Yoruba: “Antárktìkà”
  • Yue Chinese: “南極洲”
  • Zeeuws: “Antartica”
  • Zhuang: “Namzgigcouh”
  • Zulu: “i-Antarctica”
  • Zulu: “I-Antatika”
  • “Antarktida”
  • “Antartikah”
  • “ma Antasika”
  • “Антарктида”
  • “अंटार्कटिका”

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