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People have always wondered about what mysteries might lurk in unexplored regions. At first, people explored the land masses they lived on, voyaging up rivers, forging through dense Wild Wilderness and up into mountains. As Europeans explored more, they sailed to the Americas, and the mysterious unknown regions were revealed and mapped as part of colonialism. Eventually explorers traveled to Africa, Asia and Oceania.
The last continent to be explored and mapped out was the desolate, icy expanse of Antarctica, which was long suspected to exist but ultimately dismissed as myth until 1820, when it was finally, officially, sighted by humans. Even now, most of its surface has only been mapped by satellite. Incredible cold and lethal winds conspired to keep humans away, which made it a fertile area for stories about mysterious buried alien technology, ancient aliens, and monsters frozen in the ice. This trend continues today — after all, who knows what may be under the ice?
In Real Life, rather than pyramids and UFOs, what's under the ice seems to pretty much be... more ice. The main inhabitants of Antarctica are scientists, and the main economic activity is scientific research. A number of countries have research stations.
As time goes on, of course, Science Marches On, and the more fantastical versions of this trope are just as Discredited, just like the way depicting civilizations on the inhospitable planets of Mars and Venus in many a 1920s and 1930s Planetary Romance fell away once we knew that both were uninhabitable.
A particularly common variant is the Eerie Arctic Research Station, which despite the name applies to both the Arctic and Antarctic. Also see The Shangri-La for supernatural or mysterious depictions of another remote, icy region. See also Monster in the Ice, Grim Up North (the polar opposite), Polar Bears and Penguins.
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The Smurfs Season 9 episode "No Reflection On Vanity" takes place there.
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In the Legend Series, extreme global warming has melted Antarctica's ice, and it is now a lush, verdant land. Many people have migrated there to build a new civilization, and it is now one of the world's superpowers.
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Wonder Woman (2011): The New 52 Wonder Woman foe known as the First Born was buried in Antarctica.
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In Vainglorious Antarctica is, unknown to modern humans, the site of several jotun colonies. This becomes relevant later in the story when the colonies sail up on glaciers to join forces with the invading jotun army.
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The Mighty Thor: In one story, Thor finds the last survivor of a colony of Vikings who'd made it all the way to Antarctica in the eleventh century. The old man earns a Viking Funeral by helping defeat a monster that shrugged off Thor's strongest attacks.
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In Fine Structure, the Antarctica Dome contains the machinery for calculating the Solution and the machinery for causing multiple Class 2 extinction events.
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The Thing (1982): Often considered the Antarctica horror movie, an adaptation of John W. Campbell's short story Who Goes There? (an earlier film adaptation was set in the North Pole). And it was embraced in a weird way: The Thing (and sometimes its prequel) is regularly viewed by members of the winter crew at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station after the last flight out, usually in a double-feature with The Shining.
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In A Centaur's Life, Antarctica is inhabited by a species of snake people. The cold-blooded "serpentines" survive because of their advanced technological level and frequent use of geothermal power.
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La Guerra de los Antartes: The Argentine Antarctica is the starting point of an alien invasion. As a result of the location, the aliens are named "Antartes".
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The Warlord (DC): There is an entrance to Skartaris, the Lost World of the series, in Antarctica near the South Pole.
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In the Old World of Darkness, there were several hints about a Vampire Antediluvian sleeping under Antarctica, with best bets being Malkav on his identity. Also (possibly connected, probably not), there are a number of strange, ancient and rather disturbing cities that only the Black Spiral Dancers (Wyrm worshiping werewolves) know about.
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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, is set in the Schwarzwelt, another dimension filled with demons, accessed from Antarctica. The Schwarzwelt was originally one meter in diameter, but is slowly growing and will eventually engulf the Earth.
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Hollow Earth Expedition sets an adventure here, clearly harking back to Lovecraft and Who Goes There. Possibly also a Shout-Out to the source of its name (see Real Life section below).
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Cthulhu Mythos:
At the Mountains of Madness: The titular undiscovered Antarctic mountain range (which dwarfs the Himalayas) is the location of the last city of the Elder Things (referred to in the novella as Old Ones, but generally known in Lovecraftian scholarship and fandom as Elder Things to prevent confusion with the Great Old Ones), a race of Starfish Aliens who fought against Cthulhu and His spawn, now abandoned and inhabited only by Shoggoths, the semi-sentient amorphous former servitors of the Elder Things who now mimic their former master's culture, even carving crude inscriptions after their style into the walls and parroting the voices of the Elder Things. There are also giant albino penguins there, and some other thing that is even worse. We never really find out what it is, but a brief glimpse at it severely shakes up the sanity of one of the explorers.
A Colder War, an Alternate History Cold War short story by Charles Stross, mentions that the United States lost the entire 501st Airborne Division on the plateau beyond Mt. Erebus. There's also a gateway to another planet beneath the ice of Lake Vostok. The plot centres around a Lensman Arms Race that started after the events of Mountains of Madness, including several shoggoth that the Soviet Union have gained sufficient control over to feel comfortable turning them loose against the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, in violation of an international treaty that even Those Wacky Nazis abided by. This ends about as well as you'd expect.
Cold Water Survival by Holly Phillips has a group of adventurers setting up a base on an iceberg that's split off from Antarctica; they realise that various Eldritch Abominations frozen in the ice are slowly thawing out as the berg travels into warmer regions.
The Crevasse by Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud has a 1920's expedition realise something is hiding in a nearby crevasse, but they aren't silly enough to hang around and find out, and afterwards refuse to acknowledge that what they saw was real.
According to The Cthulhu Wars by Kenneth Hite and Kennon Bauman, Operation Highjump was a reconnaissance-in-force of the Elder cities first uncovered by the Pabodie expedition. At the same time a smaller expedition was launched into Greenland (Operation Nanook) with the end game of securing the polar regions so that bases for research and surveillance of the Mythos threat could be constructed there.
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Being based heavily on 20s pulp fiction, Eberron has the Frostfell, a polar continent of ice that serves the exact same purpose.
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Who Goes There?: An Antarctic expedition finds a crashed alien spacecraft with the cryogenically-preserved pilot, which turns out to be malign (and a Voluntary Shapeshifting variation on The Virus that, if it reaches civilization, could bring about The End of the World as We Know It).
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The SCP Foundation:
SCP-1483, a portal to an alternate universe's Antarctic civilization.
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Antarctica was the resting place of the angel Adam; disturbing him is what starts the entire series.
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The world of Golden Sun features the continent of Tundaria as its analogue for Antarctica. The continent is entirely featureless except for a single tower containing a fragment of an ancient, demigod-killing weapon.
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The Penumbra series is a well done pastiche of various Mysterious Antarctica sci-fi horror stories, set in the modern day. It takes place in northern Greenland though.
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The X-Files: Fight the Future: Scully is abducted and taken to a giant UFO hidden under the ice of Antarctica.
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Boa (AKA New Alcatraz) (2000): Construction workers digging an inescapable prison at the South Pole come across a giant prehistoric snake preserved in nitrogen.
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Evolution: Baxter puts forth the theory that the dinosaurs on the continent (being already adapted for long periods of darkness without much food) survived the K-T extinction event and continued to evolve into cold-weather forms (Sabre-toothed Allosaurus? Awesome.) until the glaciers formed.
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In the Stargate-verse, the Earth's original Stargate (Not the one they've been using all along, that one was brought to Earth at the time of ancient Egypt) was found in Antarctica, and Atlantis also used to be 'parked' there — before the Ancients abandoned Earth, leaving behind an outpost with a superweapon. They also found a living Ancient Popsicle. It should be noted, though, that the Ancients were old enough that their settlement there actually predated the Antarctic's most recent freezing.
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Marvel Universe:
The Mighty Thor: In one story, Thor finds the last survivor of a colony of Vikings who'd made it all the way to Antarctica in the eleventh century. The old man earns a Viking Funeral by helping defeat a monster that shrugged off Thor's strongest attacks.
Antarctica holds the Savage Land, a tropical jungle complete with dinosaurs, created (and sustained) by alien technology.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner takes place largely in Antarctic seas shrouded in fog and haunted by spirits. Worth noting that Antarctica wouldn't even be confirmed to exist until some 22 years after the story was first published, and the predominant opinion at the time was that it did not, the two James Cook expeditions of the 1770s having gone as far south as to come within 75 miles of the continent before turning back from the relentless ice.
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Pathfinder: The Antarkos Oceannote in a reverse of how it usually goes, Golarion has a landlocked north pole and an oceanic south pole is a mysterious and poorly explored stretch of iceberg-choked seas surrounding an enormous ice sheet. The waters teem with fish and krill, supporting large populations of primordial Sea Monsters, and the ocean's frigid waters are also home to city of stranded aquatic aliens and to marine giants who can psychically enslave other beings. In addition, there's something about the area that attracts vast numbers of incorporeal undead and animate dreams from every corner of the globe, making the southern ocean's waters, skies and ice haunted by wraiths, ghosts and specters of every sort.
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In Sentou Yousei Yukikaze, the JAM invasion of Earth started on the Ross Ice Shelf when a hyperspace portal appeared and they came out shooting. The world got a rude wake-up call that day when panicked scientists at the McMurdo Research Station broadcast shots of 3 JAM aircraft shooting down a cargo plane that had just taken off. For extra points, if Lynn Jackson's flashback in the anime adaptation's first episode is accurate, this happened on Christmas Day.
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The White Darkness: She hears him before she gets there, but Sym survives in Antarctica with help from what's either a hallucination of a dead explorer in Spirit Advisor form, or the real thing.
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Whiteout: Averted, as a murder mystery outside one of the research bases proves to be plenty to keep a U.S. Marshal occupied, no fantastical weirdness necessary. It's particularly noteworthy for how desolate and potentially lethal the setting is.
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Call of Cthulhu, extrapolating on the aforementioned novella by Lovecraft, has a sprawling campaign called Beyond The Mountains Of Madness. Player characters return to the site of the original expedition to find out why there were only two survivors the first time around.
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): The Monsterverse version of King Ghidorah was found frozen solid in a state of hibernation beneath the Antarctic ice by Monarch. The Evil Plan of Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorists is to release him from his icy tomb, which they successfully do.
In Godzilla vs. Kong, we learn that Antarctica also contains a tunnel to the Hollow Earth.
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Gargoyles never featured Antarctica, but Greg Weisman's long-term plans would have had King Arthur found New Camelot there, with its own gargoyle clan, and the "Master Matrix" (presumably somehow related to the Grey Goo entity seen in "Walkabout") making it livable.
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She (1935): Although on the opposite Pole, is worth mentioning; it changes H. Rider Haggard's Lost World tale from Africa to the Arctic, at the time still mostly unknown and thus viewed like Darkest Africa.
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Creepshow: Implied and invoked with the segment "The Crate". A university janitor finds a forgotten, unopened crate brought back from a 19th century expedition to Antarctica, and what's inside is somehow still alive, and very hungry. The sequence is set entirely at the university campus and the surrounding town in what appears to be New England (knowing Stephen King, probably Maine), so we never actually see Antarctica in the film, but the story nonetheless relies on that continent's eerie connotations to build up a sense of the supernatural around the monster.
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Superman: In the post-Crisis comics, particularly during the Roger Stern era, the first version of the Fortress of Solitude was in the Antarctic. (It was generally referred to only as "the Antarctic Fortress.")
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Walking with Dinosaurs had an episode, entitled "Spirits of the Ice Forest", on Antartica during the early Cretaceous. Though nowhere near as cold as it is now, Antarctica is portrayed as an eerie place full of Mysterious Mist and strange animals.
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The Detective is Already Dead reveals in its seventh volume that the mysterious and powerful Mizoev Federation, which acts as a shadow government to much of the world's countries, is located in Antarctica.
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In The Elder Scrolls series, Nirn's version is Atmora, the northernmost continent. In ancient times, it was home to the Atmorans, an ancient race of men with Barbarian Tribe and proto-Horny Vikings traits. Thousands of years prior to when the games in the main series take place, Atmora experienced the "Frost Fall", a mysterious gradual cooling of Atmora which quickly rendered it uninhabitable to intelligent life. Most of the Atmorans migrated south to northern Tamriel, settling in modern day Skyrim and interbreeding with Tamriel's native Nedic humans to create the modern Nords (and possibly all races of Men save the Redguards, though sources greatly conflict and are heavily biased). Reports from the 2nd and 3rd Eras indicate that Atmora is now completely frozen over, with no sign of intelligent life.
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A Place Further than the Universe involves the protagonists going on a civilian expedition to Antarctica, the "place" described in the title, which is also the title of Shirase's mother's book with the same name. Hinata even once describes it as a great place to get away from everyone.
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The DCU:
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, an Elseworld mixing the Dark Knight with H. P. Lovecraft (mainly At the Mountains of Madness) opens with Bruce Wayne and his wards arriving in Antarctica to find out what happened to "the Cobblepot Expedition". Almost all of them died in the Mountains of Madness, Cobblepot himself joined the albino penguins, and one member of the expedition became an undead being that needs the Antarctic cold to survive (a mashup between Mr Freeze and Dr Muñoz from Cool Air).
Martian Manhunter: The Manhunter has a base there, in his case an entire buried Martian city.
Superman: In the post-Crisis comics, particularly during the Roger Stern era, the first version of the Fortress of Solitude was in the Antarctic. (It was generally referred to only as "the Antarctic Fortress.")
Wonder Woman (2011): The New 52 Wonder Woman foe known as the First Born was buried in Antarctica.
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Martian Manhunter: The Manhunter has a base there, in his case an entire buried Martian city.
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The affront to conventional morality that is the Tsalal of Green Antarctica, where due to tiny population numbers and incredibly low survivability, incest and cannibalism are commonly practiced.
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In Hatchling Quest, Antarctica became this after The Simurgh made her second appearance there and just vanished. Since then, any attempt to gather information about the continent has failed. Satellites show nothing, anyone sent there are never seen again, even capes with flight and teleportation powers vanish without a trace. We find out why this is in 15.16 the Space Pirates had a base there where they were studying Metroids!!! They somehow escaped, the base was abandoned, and the continent was quarantined.
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Halo: Ghosts of Onyx briefly mentions the Covenant digging in Antarctica, and there's only one reason the Covenant dig.
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Encounters at the End of the World: This documentary feature talks about the history of exploration of Antarctica and how Antarctica was the last blank space on the map. Director/narrator Werner Herzog talks about how it's sad that after man made it to the South Pole, there were no more unknown spaces to explore.
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In Godzilla vs. Kong, we learn that Antarctica also contains a tunnel to the Hollow Earth.
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In The Magicians, part of the students' education takes place at Brakebills South, in Antarctica, treated as a decidedly unearthly place where the bleakness of the landscape may induce Sanity Slippage. It's also a handy place to stash misbehaving professors.
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom: The "Lost Kingdom'' of Necrus was apparently based in Antarctica. Ruled by King Atlan's brother Kordax, the latter's ambition led him to experiment with dark magic, turning his people into monsters. After being defeated by Atlan, the kingdom and all it's inhabitants were sealed under thick ice. Black Manta - searching for Atlantean technology and unwittingly possessed when he discovers Kordax's black trident - attempts to release Kordax to take revenge on Aquaman and destroy Atlantis.
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Not much is known about the Warhammer equivalent of Antarctica, only that the map says 'Here There Be Daemons'. According the fluff there's basically a portal to Hell there, spilling out The Legions of Hell... and there's nobody doing anything about it. Fortunately, they don't need to, as beastmen and daemons are good at slaughtering and killing but not very good at, say, building boats.
It's obliquely implied at several points in the backstory that the High Elves maintain a string of fortresses that watch over the choke points. (Contrariwise, the north pole has a full land connection to the mainland of the Warhammer world and can't be contained in this way.)
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In the Doctor Who episode "Seeds of Doom", scientists found two pods there that turned humans into creatures that were like giant homicidal rotting broccoli stalks. The pods also made other plants turn against people.
Also, The First Doctor's last episode, "The Tenth Planet" (made when Pluto was still considered a planet) was set in Antarctica. The Cyberman weren't actually from there, but they had been found there.
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Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, an Elseworld mixing the Dark Knight with H. P. Lovecraft (mainly At the Mountains of Madness) opens with Bruce Wayne and his wards arriving in Antarctica to find out what happened to "the Cobblepot Expedition". Almost all of them died in the Mountains of Madness, Cobblepot himself joined the albino penguins, and one member of the expedition became an undead being that needs the Antarctic cold to survive (a mashup between Mr Freeze and Dr Muñoz from Cool Air).
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A Colder War, an Alternate History Cold War short story by Charles Stross, mentions that the United States lost the entire 501st Airborne Division on the plateau beyond Mt. Erebus. There's also a gateway to another planet beneath the ice of Lake Vostok. The plot centres around a Lensman Arms Race that started after the events of Mountains of Madness, including several shoggoth that the Soviet Union have gained sufficient control over to feel comfortable turning them loose against the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, in violation of an international treaty that even Those Wacky Nazis abided by. This ends about as well as you'd expect.
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The final Allied mission in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge is to destroy Yuri's final Psychic Dominator, which has been hidden in Antarctica.
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The Head: The summer relief team fly out to an Antarctica research station to find the entire winter team murdered or missing. It even includes a scene of the Winterers watching The Thing (1982), as per tradition, before everything goes to hell.
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Cityverse: Antarctica is home to a suspiciously friendly Eldritch Abomination.note You should visit us. we're lonely :(((:(( join us? :):)):)):):))
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Similar to the Operation Highjump conspiracy theory (see below), in Call of Duty: Black Ops a Russian special task force is assembled to take out the last vestiges of the Nazi regime in a secret polar base developing Nova 6 about a month after WW2 officially ended. It takes place in the Arctic Circle, but its similarity to the conspiracy theory is probably not a coincidence.
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The Land That Time Forgot: The tropical Lost World Caspak is located on a large island in the vicinity of Antarctica.
Also from Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods Of Mars takes us to the Valley Dor at the south pole of Mars, which is viewed very much this way by the rest of the planet - an unexplored region where people go when it's time for them to die, and from which no one may return. It turns out that they don't get to live out their final days in peace, however, but are instead either cannibalized or Made a Slave by one of two secret polar civilizations - the wicked First Born of Mars and the even worse Holy Therns. John Carter and Tars Tarkas must fight their way out, then convince their northern allies to mount an invasion to free all the enslaved people still down there. The next book in the series, The Warlord of Mars, features another uncharted region and undiscovered civilization at Mars' northern pole.
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At the Mountains of Madness: The titular undiscovered Antarctic mountain range (which dwarfs the Himalayas) is the location of the last city of the Elder Things (referred to in the novella as Old Ones, but generally known in Lovecraftian scholarship and fandom as Elder Things to prevent confusion with the Great Old Ones), a race of Starfish Aliens who fought against Cthulhu and His spawn, now abandoned and inhabited only by Shoggoths, the semi-sentient amorphous former servitors of the Elder Things who now mimic their former master's culture, even carving crude inscriptions after their style into the walls and parroting the voices of the Elder Things. There are also giant albino penguins there, and some other thing that is even worse. We never really find out what it is, but a brief glimpse at it severely shakes up the sanity of one of the explorers.
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Tomb Raider III's Excuse Plot revolves around four mysterious artifacts made out of a meteor that crashed into Antarctica, the work of an ancient civilization. The game begins with Dr. Willard's research team discovering maori statues in Antarctica. Eventually we learn that Charles Darwin's voyage uncovered a cave where the meteor itself was held, and that an ancient civilization used the meteor's mysterious power to craft artifacts that caused dramatic mutations. The recovered artifacts were lost by Darwin's associates; one remained in a temple on a South Pacific island where the descendants of the Antarctic civilization ended up. During the game's final levels, after Lara has collected all of the artifacts, she heads to Antarctica. She fights her way through Dr. Willard's camp and into a research station, following it into a mining operation overrun by mutants created out of Willard's employees by the meteor. Eventually, she discovers the lost city of Tinnos, a massive underground archaeological site populated by Willard's mutants and giant insects.
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In the EverQuest tabletop game, the Poles (both north and south) of the moon of Luclin are given the Antarctica treatment.
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In Watchmen Ozymandias' headquarters of Karnak is located here, complete with tropical vivarium. He takes advantage of the fact that Antarctica doesn't belong to any country to shelter three North Vietnamese men, who no longer have a country after Dr. Manhattan helped America win the Vietnam War.
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In Scion, Antarctica is actually Atlantis. The Gods did not approve of the Atlanteans' wholesale Titan-worship and collectively destroyed it.
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In Star Control 2, it is mentioned that when the Ur-Quan blasted all ancient human historical sites from space, Antarctica was one location they targeted. No one knows why.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: In the original, negotiations between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon took place in Antarctica, since it was the closest thing to neutral territory in the Earth Sphere. These negotiations eventually lead to the signing of the Antarctic Treaty (sort of a futuristic Geneva Convention that, among other things, outlawed the use of nuclear and biological weapons, as well as Colony Drops).
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The Land Unknown (1957) has a US Navy helicopter crashing into a misty crater full of highly unconvincing dinosaurs.
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The New World of Darkness has a lodge of werewolves dedicated to making sure that something stays buried underneath Antarctica. At least... they were dedicated to that purpose. Then someone found a woman's face carved into the ice that started telling them how great they are for rescuing her and... well, they all went batshit and started worshipping it.
As the Contagion Chronicle reveals, it goes deeper than that—Antarctica is home to the Carriers, the most dangerous of the Contagious.
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Taken to absolutely chilling extremes in found-footage horror podcast The White Vault. A documentarian— compiling recordings, journal entries, videos, and other transmissions— spends the first two seasons of the podcast tracking the demise of a repair team sent to an Antarctic mining outpost. The team, originally there to address an equipment malfunction, soon discovers tunnels and a cave system beneath the ice leading to something ancient, inexplicable, utterly horrifying— and, unfortunately for them, very intelligent.
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The Babylon 5 Expanded Universe Psi Corps Trilogy of novels: Antarctica is where the Vorlons began their gene tampering on humans to produce telepaths, the targets being adventure tourists visiting an isolated part of the continent.
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 A Centaur's Life (Manga) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 Metallica (Music) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 Hyperspace Evangelion (Roleplay) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 We Are Our Avatars Escapist (Roleplay) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 Danger 5 / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Eyewitness / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 The Terror / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 Diplomacy (Tabletop Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Eldritch Horror (Tabletop Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Greyhawk (Tabletop Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Werewolf: The Forsaken (Tabletop Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Penumbra (Video Game)
seeAlso
Mysterious Antarctica
 Penumbra (Video Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Tomb Raider III (Video Game) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Call Of War / Videogame / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Unclassified Encounter (Web Animation) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 Ask Lovecraft (Web Video) / int_d7f4e6e1
type
Mysterious Antarctica
 Orion's Arm (Website) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica
 The Smurfs (1981) / int_d7f4e6e1
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Mysterious Antarctica