Antarctica in Popular Culture (Great White South)

Novels

 * 1897: An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces), a two-volume novel by Jules Verne and is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands into the interior of Antarctica.
 * 1936: At the Mountains of Madness, a novella by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. The novella recounts the tale of the discovery of an ancient city located in.
 * 1979: Down to a Sunless Sea, a post-apocalyptic novel by David Graham. Set in a near-future world where most of the world has been destroyed by nuclear war, the story showcases hordes of refugees overwhelming Antarctica, which has been spared destruction.
 * 1997: Antarctica, a novel written by Kim Stanley Robinson. It deals with a variety of characters living at or visiting . It incorporates many of Robinson's common themes, including scientific process and the importance of environmental protection.
 * 1998: Arcticfire, a novel written by Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, where a terrorist organization turns on a Doomsday device built in secret in.
 * 1998: Ice Station', a novel by Australian thriller writer Matthew Reilly and set in the.
 * 1999: Atlantis Found, a novel by Clive Cussler and part of the Dirk Pitt series. In the novel, the  is depicted as the successor state to the mythical Atlantis.
 * 2000: A Colder War is an English language alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It fuses the Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos, and explores the consequences of a follow-up to the expedition in H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. In the novelette, the Soviet Union has overthrown the government of Bellinsgauzenia and are using the place as a base to gather and research ancient artifacts found on the continent, leading to an international crisis.
 * 2000: The Ice Limit, a science fiction, adventure novel by authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In the novel, a team attempts to recover a large meteorite, but are hounded by a rogue  military officer.
 * 2006: The Brief History of the Dead, a fantasy and adventure novel by Kevin Brockmeier. In the novel Antarctica has become the last refuge for civilization as environmental damage and terrorism is rendering the rest of the world uninhabitable.

Computer games

 * 1986: Arcticfox, a computer game developed by Dynamix and published by Electronic Arts. It was published in Europe by Ariolasoft. It was first developed for the Amiga, but was quickly ported to other popular platforms of the era such as the Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PC and Apple IIe. It was one of the first games rendered from a 3-D first-person perspective, and is often mentioned as a pioneer of the first person shooter genre. It is also one of the very first titles available for the Amiga home computer.  The game was a first person tank simulator and a sequel to Dynamix's earlier Stellar 7. In the game aliens have invaded Antarctica and the player must liberate the continent and its people.  The game was ridiculed in Anatarctica for protraying the continent as a frozen wasteland.

Television

 * 2002: The Stargate SG-1 season 6 episode Frozen where the Antarctic team investigating the site where the second Stargate was found discovers a frozen Ancient. The team and a nearby town starts to suffer the effects of a deadly virus.

Comics

 * Justice League Antarctica: A fictional DC superhero team that had it's own series through most of the 1990s. The team was made up of disgraced heroes and reformed villans who were stationed in Byrd City,  until they proved themselves ready to return to active duty elsewhere.  Despite many team members feeling frustarted over the assignment, most learned to accept their position and helped stop several crisises.  Though the series ended in 1997, the team continues to show up in DC canon.  The roster of "JLAnt" has included such members as:
 * Clock King
 * Cluemaster
 * Flash
 * G'nort
 * Major Disaster
 * Resurrection Man
 * Scarlet Skier