Until a fire-spewing dragon breached The Wall in Game of Thrones, the 700-foot tall ice fortification kept murderous armies of resurrected dead from entering the Seven Kingdoms.

There is no ice wall, and Antarctica gets a regular flow of visitors. About 74,000 people visited the continent during the 2019-2020 season, according to the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty.

The article noted, “An Oct. 29 Instagram post includes a photo of television adventurer Bear Grylls, accompanied by text saying Antarctica is the ‘ice wall around this flat Earth.’ The image ...

USA TODAY, Nov. 16, 2022, Fact check: Antarctica is a continent, not an 'ice wall' around a flat Earth Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, accessed April 21, Tourism and non-governmental activities ...

In an area of West Antarctica called Marie Byrd Land, the ice sheet seems to have a mind of its own, rising and falling by as much as 20 feet over relatively short periods of time.

A video of a map depicting Earth’s continents surrounded by an Antarctic “ice wall” is a creative interpretation from an online art forum. Some posts on social media have shared it with ...

Bedmap3 is the newest map showing what Antarctica will look like without ice. British Antarctic Survey. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ships, and dog sleds to create the map and ...

This 3-D reconstruction of the topography hidden under Antarctica's two-mile-thick coating of ice was made using data from radar surveys. The continent was relatively flat before glaciers started ...

A new model developed by Caltech and JPL researchers suggests that Antarctica's ice shelves may be melting at an accelerated rate, which could eventually contribute to more rapid sea level rise.

The fictitious Wall in Game of Thrones doesn't just stand 700 feet tall -- it stretches for 300 miles.But if it were here on Earth, it would crumble. "Essentially the ice deforms under its own ...