Empirical Earth · Space, Satellites & the Edges of the Map
Antarctica, the "ice wall" & the lands that aren't beyond it
The claim
“Antarctica is an ice wall ringing the disc; the Treaty bans anyone from crossing it.”
What is measured
Antarctica is a ~14-million-km² continent you can fly across and circumnavigate, not the ice wall ringing a disc that flat-Earth maps require.
What would show this is wrong
a measured Antarctic coastline far longer than a bounded continent, an ice wall ringing a disc.
Sources
- The Antarctic Treaty (1959). Signed 1 Dec 1959, in force 1961; applies south of 60°S; demilitarises the continent, freezes territorial claims, bans nuclear tests/waste, and guarantees freedo link
- Antarctica — geography, exploration & subglacial features. Area ~14.2M km², coastline ~18,000 km, ice avg ~1.9 km; South Pole reached 1911, Amundsen–Scott station since 1956, first surface c link
- Ocean-floor mapping status. The Nippon Foundation–GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project: 27.3% of the seafloor mapped to modern standards as of World Hydrography Day 2025 (6% in 2017); the remainder kno link
- Exploration of the far south and the poles. James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1773 and circumnavigated the continent; Bellingshausen sighted Antarctica in 1820 and James Clark Ross link
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