The Eternal Winter Island in Antarctica

The Antarctic island served as a winter base for early 20th-century polar explorers.

Topped year-round with a layer of ice, Antarctica’s Argentine Islands display a winter-like appearance even in summer. Ice caps are visible across half of the total land area in summer, though the proportion is a bit higher on Winter Island where an ice cap spans about 70 percent of the land.

Landsat 9’s OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) acquired these images on February 16,…