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This map story is about one specific map, the only one remaining from the Roman Empire. The map is 6.8 meters long, 33 centimeters tall and spans from today's

Antarctica is the highest, driest, coldest, and windiest continent on earth. So perhaps unsurprisingly, it spent the last 35 million years in relative isolation. People only discovered Antarctica in 1820, and it took another 100 years for people to reach the pole. But how many people live in Antarctica now? Antarctica is extremely inhospitable. Image via Wikipedia. Antarctica has no real permanent residents — just research stations and field camps staffed either seasonally or year-round. Yet ...