Antarctica

Antarctica is one of the seven continents found on the planet Earth and is located in the Southern hemisphere. It is the coldest of all the continents and also has the lowest human population. It's overall land area is 14,000,000 km2 (5,400,000 square miles), 13,720,000 km2 of which is ice-covered with 280,000 km2 remaining ice free.

In fiction
Antarctica was the central setting of the 1981 John Carpenter film The Thing, which was a remake of the 1951 film The Thing from Another World, though this film took place in Alaska, not Antarctica. In the movie, an alien space vessel crash lands on Earth at some time in the distant past and remains inert until an American scientific research team inadvertently lets loose a grotesque alien organism that begins slaughtering all of the workers at the station.

In the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator, Antarctica was the site of an expedition headed up by industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland. Their mission was to locate an ancient underground temple which had been constructed by alien visitors thousands of years earlier. By accessing the ruins beneath the ice shelf, they prematurely awaken several xenomorph eggs, which produce facehugger parasites that attack the expedition members, using their bodies as host incubators for the xenomorph young. As it happened, a clan of extraterrestrials known as Yautjas, or Predators, come to Earth and use the facility as a proving ground, testing their mettle against the Xenomorphs. The movie posits that the Predators visited the site eons ago, bringing the Xenomorphs with them, which they hunted for sport. Antarctica was also referenced in the first film in the series, Alien, in which the main character, Ellen Ripley, attempts to contact a Weyland-Yutani tracking station located on the continent.