Antarctica is the continent you know least about. When it does have the decency to appear on maps it tends to be shown as a crinkly white stripe across the bottom.
Or for those watching in Mercator Projection a massive splodge of white twice the size of the rest of the world's landmass combined.
So, little thought is given to what shape it really, or how big it really is.
Here on a round earth is what Antarctica really looks like from below.
Deciding which way up this map should be is difficult since every direction is north.
But most maps have been standardised this way with zero degrees longitude going straight up from the South Pole.
During the winter, the sun doesn't rise for four months and temperatures reach the dizzying lows of -60 degrees celsius which is the same as -60 degrees centigrade. Surprisingly it doesn't actually snow a lot.
Antarctica is one of the driest places on earth and technically the world's largest desert as well as looking like the world's largest dessert.
It's covered in a 4km thick sheet of ice littered with perfectly preserved corpses of generations of dead penguins.
Sounds like an awful place. It is. But that hasn't stopped people from trying to own it.
