Antarctica Day Dec 1, 2022

Antarctica Day

The most isolated continent in the world is hands down the polar desert that is Antarctica, the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth. Inhospitable as it sounds, Antarctica, which lies almost completely below the Antarctic Circle, is also a place of stunning beauty as evidenced by this image of Paradise Harbour, aka Paradise Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica is also extraordinarily vulnerable to the effects of climate change, worth remembering today on Antarctica Day, which marks the anniversary of the signing of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. The international agreement protects Antarctica as a scientific preserve.

© SinghaphanAllB/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Dec 1, 2018A treaty for science
Dec 1, 2019Southern lights for Antarctica Day
Dec 1, 2020Giving Tuesday
Dec 1, 2021Antarctica Day
Dec 1, 2023Antarctica Day
Dec 1, 2024Antarctica Day
Dec 1, 2025Antarctica Day

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Jun 12, 2019A big birthday for Big Bend
Aug 14, 2022World Lizard Day
Mar 14, 2020A circular celebration
Mar 27, 2022World Theatre Day
May 8, 2025World Donkey Day
Jul 31, 2025Ring-tailed lemur
Oct 12, 2020Indigenous Peoples Day
Jun 7, 2018Humpbacks return to the Inside Passage
Jul 2, 2019Sequential images of a total solar eclipse
Apr 8, 2019Ready, set, read
Mar 8, 2025International Womens Day
Apr 5, 2020The frog prince?
Apr 23, 2020Duck, duck. duck, duck, duck...
Jan 9, 2024Balloon Ascension Day
Jun 19, 2021Surf s up—Down Under
Nov 12, 2023Diwali
Oct 7, 2023Fat Bear Week
Aug 10, 2020Kings of the Kalahari
Nov 17, 2019Remembering the Velvet Revolution
Feb 27, 2021A snuggling ball of cute
Jan 18, 2026White Sands National Park, New Mexico
May 6, 2022Bluebells in Hertfordshire, England
Sep 27, 2025Astronomy Day and National Public Lands Day
Jan 16, 2021Oh, to sleep under the northern lights
Jul 6, 2025Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California
Dec 2, 2023Angkor, Cambodia
Nov 8, 2020Languid life on the Lakes
Feb 23, 2018Aerial view of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico
Feb 4, 2022Winter Olympics in Beijing
Apr 24, 2023Old underground cellar, Bavaria, Germany