Continent
Antarctica
Warming is not spread evenly across the planet: NASA notes temperatures may rise several degrees in one region while falling in another.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Antarctica has no sovereign state and no capital. Atlas Quest describes its geography and does not describe territorial claims made on it.
Source: naturalearthdata.com
Find Antarctica on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Antarctica label sits at 79.2° S, 44.8° E, in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- Southern Ocean — about 2,400 km west
- Antarctic Peninsula — about 2,800 km south-west
- South Atlantic Ocean — about 5,700 km west
- Indian Ocean — about 5,800 km north-east
Play with it
- Today’s daily geography challenge — one shared round, playable offline.
- Guess the country by its shape — six guesses, with distance and direction after each.
- Start with easy questions — familiar countries, hints and no time limit.