Antarctica

Antarctica, the southernmost continent and a vast, icy desert with 90% of the world’s ice, is the coldest, windiest, and driest place on Earth, yet its snow contains 73–3,099 microplastics/liter, including polyamide and PET, revealing global pollution’s reach to this uninhabited wilderness.

Citations:
Microplastic Sources: [1] https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/microplastics-discovered-in-antarctica/, [2] https://phys.org/news/2025-02-antarctic-harbors-microplastics-technique-uncovers.ml, [3] https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/2127/2022/tc-16-2127-2022.html, [4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39920031/, [5] https://epic.awi.de/60053/1/Jones-Williams,Rowlands%20et%20al%202025.pdf

Travel Fact Sources: https://www.bas.ac.uk/science/science-and-society/education/antarctic-factsheet-geographical-statistics/, https://www.secretatlas.com/handbook/antarctica/50-interesting-antarctica-facts, https://www.iaea.org/

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