🏞️ Antarctic

Antarctica · Antarctica · 90.00°S, 0.00°E

Quick facts

Country	Antarctica
Continent / region	Antarctica
Coordinates (approx.)	90.00°S, 0.00°E · view on map
Distance to the equator	10,019 km south of it
Solar time	UTC+0 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today	The sun does not set here today — polar day at 90.0° latitude.

Antarctic is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

Closest protected areas

North-west White Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area — 1,329 km away
Ablation Point – Ganymede Heights Antarctic Specially Protected Area — 2,131 km away
Marion Nunataks — 2,252 km away
Amanda Bay — 2,307 km away
Lagotellerie Island — 2,459 km away

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

More protected areas in Antarctica

Ablation Point – Ganymede Heights Antarctic Specially Protected Area · Amanda Bay · Avian Island · Biscoe Point · Byers Peninsula · Coppermine Peninsula · Dion Islands · Discovery Bay (Antarctica) · Eastern Dallmann Bay Antarctic Specially Protected Area · Fildes Peninsula.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

Protected Areas — tukuk.org/protected-areas

🏞️ All protected areas

Profiles of the world's protected areas — where each site lies, which country it is in, and a plain-English introduction.

🌍 Africa protected areas

415 protected areas across Africa.

🌍 Americas protected areas

1870 protected areas across Americas.

🌍 Antarctica protected areas

25 protected areas across Antarctica.

🌍 Asia protected areas

734 protected areas across Asia.

🌍 Europe protected areas

1952 protected areas across Europe.

🌍 Oceania protected areas

176 protected areas across Oceania.