Antarctica Command — Live Monitoring

South Pole — Beyond the Map Edge

90 00'S — The Geographic South Pole lies beyond what Mercator projection can display. Three features exist here:

Amundsen-Scott Station (USA, est. 1957)
Alt 2,835m. Winter pop: 50. IceCube Neutrino Observatory — 5,160 sensors frozen into 1 km³ of ice, detecting particles from across the universe.

South Pole Lake (SPRI-70)
Subglacial lake at -89.97, 10km long, under 2,857m of ice.

Clean Air Sector
No-fly zone. Upwind sector kept pristine for atmospheric monitoring. CO2, ozone, and aerosol baselines measured here since 1957.

Antarctica By the Numbers

14.2M

km2 area

26.5M

km3 ice volume

58m

Sea level if melted

Treaty nations

1959

Treaty signed

~5,000

Summer population

Data Sources

Station coordinates: COMNAP Antarctic Facilities List, CoolAntarctica.com verified database
Subglacial lakes: Wright & Siegert (2012) 4th Inventory of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes; Livingstone et al. (2022) updated count
Seismic data: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, real-time feed (magnitude 2.5+ within Antarctic region)
Icebergs: U.S. National Ice Center (NIC) Antarctic Iceberg Tracking Database
Sea ice: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Sea Ice Index
Weather: Open-Meteo API, station-level observations
Anomalies: NASA GRACE satellite gravity data; ADMAP-2 magnetic anomaly compilation; ANITA collaboration (NASA); Bell et al. (2007)
Protected areas: Antarctic Treaty Secretariat ASPA/ASMA Database (ats.aq)
Ice/terrain: BEDMAP2 (British Antarctic Survey); REMA 2m DEM (Polar Geospatial Center)
Satellite imagery: ESRI World Imagery; NASA LIMA (Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica)
General reference: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

USGS Seismology · NSIDC Sea Ice Index · NIC Iceberg Tracking · Open-Meteo Weather · COMNAP Facilities · NASA GRACE Gravity · BEDMAP2 Subglacial