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Antarctica: map and facts

Antarctica covers 14,200,000 km². Its highest point is Vinson Massif, at 4,892 m.

Antarctica and the land around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Vinson Massif. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Area: 14,200,000 km² (CIA World Factbook (archived)). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 12,300,000 km².
Highest point: Vinson Massif, 4,892 m (Wikidata)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Vinson Massif: 4,892 m (its highest point)
Mount Kirkpatrick: 4,528 m
Mount Sidley: 4,285 m
Mount Kaplan: 4,230 m
Mount Minto: 4,165 m
Mount Fridtjof Nansen: 4,070 m
Mount Lister: 4,025 m
Faure Peak: 3,940 m

Mountain ranges: Transantarctic Mountains, Ellsworth Mountains, Pensacola Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains, Admiralty Mountains, Flood Range, Ford Ranges, Napier Mountains, Prince Albert Mountains, Prince Charles Mountains, Queen Alexandra Range and Scott Mountains.

Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Antarctic Peninsula, East Antarctica, Polar Plateau, West Antarctica, American Highland, Dome A (Argus), Dome C (Charlie), Dome F (Fuji), Hollick-Kenyon Plateau, Marie Byrd Land, Queen Maud Land and Rockefeller Plateau.

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): snow and ice 99.9%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plateaus 84.4%, hills 10.8%, mountains 2.7%, plains 1.9%.

Neighbours

Antarctica has no land borders on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.

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