Ice sheet
2.4 km
Every glacier's measured flow vector, feature-tracked from four decades of Landsat.
Antarctic science is world-class and almost entirely invisible. The data exists — in PDFs, in FTP directories, in one-off expedition papers — and nobody runs it continuously or makes it look like anything. PenguinTracker is the missing front page: an archive underneath, a headline feed on top, and a map you actually want to look at.
Every glacier's measured flow vector, feature-tracked from four decades of Landsat.
Unbroken daily extent — the longest continuous satellite record of the continent.
Who runs them, when they're staffed, how many people, and which ones have a live camera.
Every tracked berg, its area and its drift, updated weekly.
Penguins are too small to see. Their colonies stain the ice brown for hundreds of metres.
Seismic, weather, tourism, fisheries, treaty papers. All public, none of it assembled.
In April 2026 the emperor penguin was uplisted to Endangered, and the Antarctic fur seal with it. The stated cause is sea-ice loss — which happens to be one of the best-measured numbers on Earth, free and updated daily. The cause and the consequence can both be watched. Almost nobody is watching.