What's Hidden Under the Ice of Antarctica?

Remember captains, when crossing the Drake passage, keep your families away

8:30 You probably meant Arthropods instead. Anthropod has disturbing implications

Hello, I just wanted to say thanks for honoring my time and curiosity by placing the advertisement at the end and allowing me to see the entire thing. Thank you very much.

Dear RealLifeLore, you forgot about one of the most important factor called 'isostatic rebounding'. After the ice melts, the continent will rise around a few hundred meter, so it will be a continent again, not a bunch of islands. Rebounting also affect nearby continental crust, so australian and south american crust will shrink aswell. I would 100% add it to a video about antarctica. All the best from Hungary, great video nonetheless.

So nice to get a RLL video that's not 99% scary/sad/frustrating lol. I hugely appreciate the modern conflicts videos, and they're a solid part of why I'm generally able to feel informed about what's driving world affairs. But I do also miss the days of the videos about quirky geography trivia.

Nobody: RealLifeLore: V A S T M A S S I V E

Colby Gura is my husband and he worked incredibly hard on this research. Makes me very happy to see his research shared❤️

We weren't born too late to explore Earth after all.

The fact that Antarctica was part of Australia means i dont want to discover whatever is living down there

Its not true we don't have a precise explanation for the Permian Extinction. The Siberian Traps are widely accepted to be the cause and are pretty well understood by the standards of something that happened 250 million years ago. Even the people pushing impact hypothesis directly tied their theory in with the Siberian Traps and argued that the impact drove the volcanism.

RLL, please—more of this! I've been a fan for a long time, and while the geopolitical videos the channel has released lately are excellent, this is what first made the channel stand out. Returning to the source!

Why in the world isn’t NASA building prototypes of probes and testing them on lake Vostok?? It’s literally the perfect Europa practice run!

He kept saying "Anthropods" when he meant "Arthropods" and I am imaging either bug men or bugs with man feet.

Antarctica is no joke. My father has been to Antarctica twice for meteorite-hunting expeditions, and he had to perform emergency snowmobile repairs, and emergency dental surgery on a colleague by punching out a tooth with an iceblade. Hardcore place.

It holds the record for the coldest temperature ever. Perfect for anyone who thinks winter should last all year.

I didn't even think those cartoon volcanoes, where the mountain has a hole in the top filled with lava, were genuine. Antarctica has one of those, haha.

Oil? Sounds like Antarctica needs some freedom.

Wouldn’t be a real life lore video without a pinch of geopolitics

18:50 microbiologist here. I have participated in sampling missions by drilling methods and also at abyssal plains using ROVs. I am shocked by seeing the absolute absence of any precaution concerning contamination in that video. I certainly hope none of that was replicated when drilling to study biodiversity. I know the video is not of the microbial sampling drills, but if it is anything of the sort.. my gosh....That core of ice that was collected can only be used by geologists. (look at how they clean it and smooth it out using their gloves.... that they were using with the equipment. All is biologically compromised.)

Hey man i just want to say thank you for putting the ad at the end and respecting my time and curiosity for that reason i watched all the way thru. Appreciate you.