History Main / MysteriousAntarctica

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'': There is an entrance to Skartaris, the LostWorld of the series, in Antarctica near the South Pole.

** Some basis in RealLife - Nazi Germany claimed Antarctic territory before the war, which has never actually been contested by anyone. However, nobody else recognised the claim, so it's not considered to still belong to a state with no population. The flags are still there, though.

** Poe's poem "Ulalume" mentions a volcano similar to Mount Erebus in Antarctica, except that it's on more or less the opposite end of the Earth: to fit the meter, Poe had use the adjective ''boreal'' (northern), not ''austral'' (southern), when referring to the pole the volcano could be found near.

** Many other esoteric theories (especially those related to theosophy) postulate that Antarctica was the home of a civilization which preceded Atlantis. Many prominent Nazis wanted to find evidences of this Hyperborean civilization.

* A common conspiracy theory is that many of the remaining Nazis ran to a base in Antarctica after the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Second World War]], where they [[StupidJetpackHitler built UFO's and escaped to the Moon/discovered a hollow earth/did something else]].

A particularly common variant is the EerieArcticResearchStation, which despite the name applies to both the Arctic and Antarctic. See also MonsterInTheIce, GrimUpNorth (the [[IncrediblyLamePun polar]] opposite), PolarBearsAndPenguins.

A particularly common variant is the EerieArcticResearchStation, which despite the name applies to both the Arctic and Antarctic. See also MonsterInTheIce, GrimUpNorth (the [[IncrediblyLamePun polar]] opposite), PolarBearsAndPenguins, EverythingsBetterWithPenguins (hey, penguins live in Antarctica).

* Antarctica is the home of Killer [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguins]] in ''TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer''. And the [[StupidJetpackHitler Antarctic Space Nazis]] in [[Creator/KennethHite Ken Hite's]] ''Suppressed Transmission'' for ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}''.

A particularly common variant is the EerieArcticResearchStation, which despite the name applies to both the Arctic and Antarctic. See also GrimUpNorth (the [[IncrediblyLamePun polar]] opposite), PolarBearsAndPenguins, EverythingsBetterWithPenguins (hey, penguins live in Antarctica). And HumanPopsicle, since Antarctica appears to be a good place to stumble upon ''In''human Popsicles.

** Antarctica holds the Savage Land, a [[LostWorld tropical jungle]] complete with [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]], created (and sustained) by alien technology.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation:

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** ''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 Abomination}}s 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 ''[[NothingIsScarier 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.

** Other short stories have also carried on the tradition of ''Mountains of Madness'' -- "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 Abomination}}s 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 ''[[NothingIsScarier 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.

** ''A Colder War'', an AlternateHistory UsefulNotes/ColdWar short story by Creator/CharlesStross, 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 [[spoiler:the Soviet Union finding ''something'' there (hinted to be a Shoggoth), and apparently gaining sufficient control over it to feel comfortable turning it loose against the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, in violation of an international treaty that even ThoseWackyNazis abided by.]] This ends [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt about as well as you'd expect.]]

* ''The Head''. The summer relief team fly out to an Antarctica research station to find the entire winter team [[MysteryFiction murdered or missing]]. It even includes a scene of the Winterers watching ''Film/TheThing1982'', as per tradition, before everything goes to hell.

* ''Creator/JeanJohnson'''s ''Literature/TheirsNotToReasonWhy'' has the [[Main/TrappedInThePast time-traveling]] [[Main/LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal Immortal]] establish an archive in Antarctica, so that the technology and information she needs eventually is both preserved and protected. Ia raids it for some technology she needs in the short term.

* ''Creater/JeanJohnson'''s ''Literature/TheirsNotToReasonWhy'' has the [[Main/TrappedInThePast time-traveling]] [[Main/LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal Immortal]] establish an archive in Antarctica, so that the technology and information she needs eventually is both preserved and protected. Ia raids it for some technology she needs in the short term.

** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Doom That Came To Gotham'', an {{Elseworld}} mixing the Dark Knight with Creator/HPLovecraft (mainly ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'') 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'').

* The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' has a [[PrestigeClass lodge]] of [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken werewolves]] dedicated to making sure that some''thing'' stays buried underneath Antarctica. At least... they ''were'' dedicated to that purpose. Then someone found [[EldritchAbomination 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 worshiping it.

* ''Film/Retrograde2004'': The action is based on a ship trapped in Antarctic sea ice. A team of genetically-altered time travellers come back to the present to try to prevent a future biological disaster. Two opposing time travelers fight it out amongst the ships' crew of polar scientists and researchers.

* ''Film/TheThing1982'' is often considered '''the''' Antarctica horror movie, an adaptation of Creator/JohnWCampbell's short story ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' (an [[Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld earlier film adaptation]] was set in the North Pole). And it was embraced in [[TemptingFate a weird way]]: ''The Thing'' (and [[Film/TheThing2011 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 ''Film/TheShining''.

* ''Film/{{Retrograde}}'' (2004): The action is based on a ship trapped in Antarctic sea ice. A team of genetically-altered time travellers come back to the present to try to prevent a future biological disaster. Two opposing time travelers fight it out amongst the ships' crew of polar scientists and researchers.

** ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'': The titular undiscovered Antarctic mountain range (which dwarfs the Himalayas) [[spoiler: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 [[EldritchAbomination Great Old Ones]]), a race of StarfishAliens who fought against [[EldritchAbomination 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. [[NothingIsScarier We never really find out what it is]], but a brief glimpse at it [[BrownNote severely shakes up the sanity]] of one of the explorers.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, Nirn's version is Atmora, the [[GrimUpNorth northernmost continent]]. In ancient times, it was home to the Atmorans, an ancient race of men with BarbarianTribe and [=proto-=]HornyVikings traits. Thousands of years prior to when the games in the main series take place, Atmora experienced what the "[[EndlessWinter 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.

* ''Fanfic/ParisBurning'': Antarctica is home to a suspiciously friendly EldritchAbomination.[[note]]You should visit us. we're lonely :(((:(( [[AssimilationPlot join us?]] :):)):)):):))[[/note]]

* ''The Head''. The summer relief team fly out to an Antarctica research station to find the entire winter team [[MysteryFiction murdered or missing]]. It even includes a scene of the Winterers watching ''Film/TheThing1982'' as per tradition before everything goes to hell.

* ''The Head''. The summer relief team fly out to an Antarctica research station to find the entire winter team [[MysteryFiction murdered or missing]]. It even includes a scene of the Winterers watching ''Film/TheThing'' as per tradition before everything goes to hell.

* ''Film/TheThing1982'' is often considered '''the''' Antarctica horror movie.
%%* ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' (1951) and ''Film/TheThing1982'' (which later received [[Film/TheThing2011 a prequel]]) are both adaptations of Creator/JohnWCampbell's short story "''Literature/WhoGoesThere''", though the first film is set at the North Pole. And it was embraced in [[TemptingFate a weird way]]: ''The Thing'' (and [[Film/TheThing2011 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 ''Film/TheShining''.%%Missing relevant context -- why is this an example?