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.
 * 1945: Animal Farm, a satirical novel by George Orwell, taking the form of a fable about Russian Communism (though using anthropomorphic animals), is published. Though never directly described in the book, the Antarctic Front of the Russian Civil War is referenced: Russian Antarctica is replaced by "Farmer Jones' [Tsar Nicholas] allotment, a few towns over".
 * 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.

Video 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 Antarctica for portraying the continent as a frozen wasteland.
 * 2005: American developer Ensemble Studios releases Age of Empires III, a colonial-themed RTS game; with maps covering the North and South American continents. One map, "K'athar", is set in the northern reaches of ; and features the as a non-playable native nation.
 * 2007: In the Sid Meier's Civilization IV expantion pack "Beyond the Sword," Bellinsgauzenia (lead by Boris Triron) and K'athar (Lead by Omn In'saik) are playable Civilizations. The game had high ratings in Bellinsgauzenia and Ognia but it wasn't as high in the rest of Antarctica.
 * 2009: American developer Treyarch releases a expansion pact for the game Call of Duty 5 to apease Scandanavian and Antarctican gamers that focuses on the Antarctic campaign and the efforts of Free Norwegian Forces. It sold over 300,000 copys in antarctica and holds the destinction of being the first game (Or expansion to a game) made by a major company targeted at the continent.

Television

 * Stargate SG-1 has several episodes set in Antarctica, usually dealing with Ancient technology that can be found there and attempts by the SG-1 team from preventing it from falling into the wrong hands. None of the episodes, however, have been shot in Antarctica.
 * An episode of The Simpsons saw the family visit as an attempt by Lisa to join an Antarctic Environmentalist project. While it was generally well-reviewed, the episode did receive some criticism for heavily stereotyping Byrdians as "violent alcoholics", and for portraying Byrdia's culture as identical to America's.
 * The Mythbusters has filmed an "Antarctica Special" featuring Antarctic myths and urban legends. The special was filmed on location in Antarctica. There are plans for an "Antarctica Special 2".
 * Kathar - A 5-part docudrama about the history of the, detailing it's foundation; it's wars with the Ognaru; interaction with European explorers; wars with the Russians; and finally it's decline and fall. Despite being produced by a small, poorly-funded Ognian-Byrdian studio, the series was very well reviewed, and was shown on major Networks in many countries across the globe.
 * Two episodes of the sci-fi/alternate history television series Sliders were set in alternate Antarcticas. The first episode took place in an Antarctica that was a sparsely-populated frozen wasteland. The second took place in an Antarctica that was completely overun by New Swabia after World War II.
 * At least half a season of the anime Ranma 1/2 was set in a small Antarctic enclave settled by the Japanese.
 * Antarctica is also referenced in many Japanese animated series such as the long-running Gundam series. In G-Gundam, there was a Gundam from "Neo Swabia" called the Skijager Gundam as well as the White Guard Gundam from "Neo Bellingsgauzenia". In Gundam 0080, the Zeons launched an attack on a Federation base in Antarctica. And in Gundam 00, the Antarctic continent is part of the US-led Union.
 * In Neon Genesis Evangelion, a meteorite that struck Antarctica in the 2000s had made the continent unihabitable due to becoming a frozen wasteland.
 * A anthropomorphic personification of Bellingsgauzenia appeared on one episode of the famous Axis Powers Hetalia anime series. In one episode, he visits his siblings called Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine and had cooked borscht for them. However, Bellingsgauzenia's version had penguin meat on them, something that the other siblings disliked much.

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
 * HYDRA, the fictional neo-nazi organization in Marvel comics has a secret base located in Antarctica. The location is kept vague, but it is heavily implied that it is in New Swabia.

Films

 * 1957: The Regulators, starring John Wayne as a  in the 1910s. The film is generally regarded as a "Western" with only superficial changes: Sheriffs become Regulators; Apaches become Ognians; Mexican bandits become Russian highwaymen. Despite this supposed unoriginality, the film is a success both in America and across Antarctica.
 * 1963: The Flight of a King, a British film starring Bernard Lee as King Haakon VII of Norway. The film details the events of April 15th, 1940 - the day of the Norwegian Royal Family's long, dangerous journey from Oslo to ; as they fled from the Nazi occupation of Norway. Though it is overly dramatised, the film keeps close to the actual events; as its historical consultant (and narrator) was Jens Jagland - one of the actual Royal bodyguards on the day.
 * 1982: The Thing, a classic science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. It infiltrates a small, isolated town in, taking the appearance of the townsfolk that it kills. Paranoia occurs within the small group of survivors that tries to flee the lifeform, as no once can be completely sure that everyone in the group is not a copy. The film ends with the military responding to a distress call by fire-bombing the town out of existence.
 * 2010: National Treasure 3, a fictionalized account of a team of treasure hunters discovering the sunken remains of a fleet that, according to legend, was transporting pillaged treasure from conquered Ognia to Russia, when it sunk in a freak Antarctic storm.