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  • The lowest point in Antarctica is within the Bentley Subglacial Trench , which reaches 2,555 meters below sea level. This is also the lowest place on earth not covered by ocean (although it is covered by ice).


  • The farthest point of land from any coastline on the Antarctic Continent is located at . This is also known as the South Pole Of Inaccessibility .



  • Antarctica is the Southernmost (U.S. Administered Base).


  • Highest temperature so far recorded in Antarctica: 14.6°C (58.3°F) at Vanda Station ( New Zealand administered station) on 5 January 1974


  • Lowest temperature so far recorded in Antarctica: -89.2°C (-128.6°F) at Vostok ( Russia n administered station) on 21 July 1983


  • Vostok is the most isolated research base on the continent (located at ), and it is situated over the southernmost lake in the world, Lake Vostok , a subglacial lake 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) under the surface of the ice where the station sits.


  • Antarctica has the world's lowest Rainfall average (Zero at the Geographic South Pole) and thus is the world's driest continent.


  • Despite its zero rainfall, Antarctica has approximately 90% of the world's fresh water (as ice).


  • The southernmost .


  • The Ross Sea is the southernmost sea in the world, with its southernmost extremity ( Gould Coast ) at the foot of the Horlick Mountains approximately 200 miles (320km) from the Geographic South Pole.


  • The northernmost extremity of Antarctica is Hope Bay , at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula at . The Antarctic Peninsula is the only part of the continent that lies north of the Antarctic Circle and thus has most of the continent's research bases. The northern promintory of Hope Bay - ''Prime Head'' - is 670 mi (1,078 km) from Cape Horn . The northernmost research base inland is Esperanza Base


  • While animal life such as Penguins and Sea Lions are found all around the Antarctic coastline, the continent's only flowering plants are found on the northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula.