A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent.

"The map gives us a clear view of the white continent as if its 27 million cubic km of ice have been removed, revealing the hidden locations of the tallest mountains and the deepe

The place thought to have had the thickest overlying ice was Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land, but a reinterpretation of data reveals it is in fact an unnamed canyon - at 76.052°S, 118.378°E in Wilkes Land, where the ice here is 4,757m thick, which is more than 15 times the height of the UK's tallest skyscraper, the Shard in London.