And I appreciate the awesome job you've done with my suggestion! It almost brings a tear to my eye! I love how the land mass of Antarctica looks and always knew it would make a great map!

I think the bonus names are brilliant, I was trying to find a good way to name the territories but I can't, I was thinking research stations maybe, but they are mostly on the edge, and maybe wouldn't make sense on a post-melt Antarctica...

It's a tricky one, I don't have any good suggestions :/

There's a few mountains, and things like the south pole itself, maybe that's a start?

Indeed it is a start. I appreciate the idea. I am thinking about naming some of the territories after names of explorers of the region, and perhaps Ice sheets and nearby features. It was a little bit of a stretch for some of those bonuses, even! I think I will figure it out.

This map is easily my best map yet. The quality is even surprising to me when I look at it. I keep thinking to myself, "I made that???" Its difficult for me to believe.

In any case, I think the territory names will figure themselves out in time... although I will be actively searching for them throughout the process of naming. If anyone else has ideas, feel free to mention them!

Ironically, the south pole is underwater in the map, but I can place the name onto the nearest territory.

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You may problems with that considering there aren't many features in Antarctica outside the occasional mountain.

I have a suggestion, name them after all the members of the exploring expeditions to the arctic, when you throw in the full crew, you would probably have more than enough names, and eliminate them based on importance to the mission at hand.

@japan77- That is what I was considering. It is probably my only option.

I mean, really thinking about it, the reason we don't have names is because of the antartic treaty, we're not allowed to settle there, it's research only and there are very strict rules about what you're even allowed to take there.

So after the melt there will be one of three things:

1. Antartica will remain 100% protected, and will become a haven for a lot of wildlife once the forests regrow, etc.

2. People will be allowed to settle there, once there is soil, trees, etc, maybe there will be new cities and farmlands.

3. Oil.

Or a combination of all three! So names could be related to thinking along those lines, also maybe take into account what the new regions geography and climate would be, forests, deserts, mountains, plains, etc... I did have a nice graphic about the predictions but I can't find it now!

Also kek:

You know, I think I might start a series of maps based off of the post-melt world. It would be a very interesting journey, and also open some eyes to some people about what would really happen if all of that ice did melt.

That's exactly what I was thinking when reading up on it just now aswell!

The Europe map is particularly interesting to me, UK is half under water, and many countries like the Netherlands will be gone completely, it'll be a scary new world indeed...



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Check this site out, set it to +60m to get the post-antartica melt:

http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/

That is awesome, Fleece!