The Antarctic is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.
An October 2006 NASA satellite image of the Antarctic without its periphery of unattached sea ice
Antarctic krill.
Chinstrap penguin.
Moubray Bay and Mount Herschel in Eastern Antarctica
The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles, lying within the polar circles. These high latitudes are dominated by floating sea ice covering much of the Arctic Ocean in the north, and by the Antarctic ice sheet on the continent of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the south.
North polar region polar bears
South polar region penguin