Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Vinson Massif, nhongonya yakakwirira zvikurusa muAntarctica pa 4,892 m (16,050 ft), iri muEllsworth Mountains. Antarctica ine mamwe makomo akawanda, ari munyika yacho uye pazvitsuwa zvakapoteredza. Gomo reErebus riri paRoss Island ndiro gomo rinoputika riri nechokumaodzanyemba kwenyika. Rimwe gomo rinoputika rinozivikanwa zvikuru rinowanikwa paDeception Island, iro rakakurumbira nokuda kwokuputika kukuru muna 1970. Kuputika kuduku kunoitika kakawanda, uye mumakore achangopfuura kwave kuchicherechedzwa kuyerera kwegiravhiti. Mamwe makomo anoputika asingabvi anogona kunge achiri kushanda. Muna 2004, gomo rinoputika riri pasi pemvura rinogona kunge richiri kushanda rakawanikwa muAntarctic Peninsula nevatsvakurudzi vokuAmerica nevokuCanada. Antarctica ine nyanza dzinopfuura 70 dziri pasi peaizi yomunyika yacho. Lake Vostok, yakawanwa pasi peVostok Station yeRussia muna 1996, ndiyo huru pane idzi nyanza dziri pasi pechando. Pane imwe nguva zvaifungidzirwa kuti gungwa racho rakanga rakavharwa kwemakore 500 000 kusvika kumamiriyoni, asi ongororo ichangobva kuitwa inoratidza kuti, nguva nenguva, mvura yakawanda inobva mugungwa rimwe ichienda mune rimwe. Pane humwe uchapupu, huri muzvinhu zvakaita seaizi yakaboorwa kusvika pamamita anenge 400 pamusoro pemvura, hunoratidza kuti mvura yeLake Vostok inogona kunge iine zvipuka zvipenyu. Gungwa racho rakaoma nechando rakafanana nemwedzi waJupiter, Europa. Kana upenyu hwikawanwa muLake Vostok, zvaizosimbisa kutaura kwokubvira kwoupenyu paEuropa. Musi waFebruary 7, 2008, chikwata cheNASA chakatanga rwendo rwokuenda kuLake Untersee, kunotsvaka mhuka dzinonzi extremophiles mumvura dzayo dzine alkaline zvikuru. Kana zvikawanikwa, zvisikwa izvi zvakasimba zvingawedzera kusimbisa nharo dzehupenyu hwokunze kwenyika munzvimbo dzinotonhora zvikuru, dzine methane yakawanda. Muna September 2018, vatsvakurudzi veNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency vakabudisa mepu yepamusorosoro yemamiriro ezvinhu (tsanangudzo kusvika kuhukuru hwemotokari, uye zvishoma mune dzimwe nzvimbo) yeAntarctica, inonzi "Reference Elevation Model yeAntarctica" (REMA).  Mubvunzo: ndezvipi zviyero zvegomo rakakwirira zvikuru reAntarctica
4.892 m (16.050 ft)