The least heavily populated as well as most southerly continent in the world is Antarctica. It includes the geographical South Post and is almost fully south of the Antarctic Circle, surrounded by the Southern Sea. With a surface area of 14,200,000 km2, Antarctica is the fifth...

Researchers discovered signs of rainforests around the South Pole 90 million years ago, indicating that the atmosphere was unusually mild at the moment. From the Cretaceous period, a team from the United Kingdom and Germany found woodland soil within 900 km of the South Pole....