Blank Antarctica map maker
This Antarctica map maker gives you the 2 regions of Antarctica as one blank map. On the world map no other country shares a land border with it. Click a region to fill it, write the legend, and download a PNG. Nothing to install and no account needed.
Also known as: blank antarctica map, antarctica regions map, color a map of antarctica.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
What you can colour on the Antarctica map
Every region is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Antarctica
- X02~
Antarctica on the map
Read from the map data this page opens, not typed in.
- Continent
- Antarctica
- Land borders on the world map
- none
- What a click paints
- one of 2 regions
- Region code
- AQ
How to make a blank Antarctica map
- Open the Antarctica map. Start from the panel above, which is already the editor. What a click paints here is one region. There are 2 of them, all listed further down this page: check that list before you start, it is the whole of what this map can colour.
- Write the legend before you paint. Add one entry per category and say what it means in your own words. The legend is part of the exported image, so a map that made sense to you at midnight still makes sense to someone who sees it cold.
- Fill the regions. Every click paints one region. Fill everything in a baseline colour first and then paint the exceptions, or paste a table of regions and values and let the colour scale do it.
- Export or publish. Download a PNG, JPEG, SVG or PDF at the size you ask for, or publish for a link with a preview image.
What you can do
- All 2 regions, each a separate clickable shape.
- Flat colours, or stripe, dot and checkerboard patterns for the categories that would otherwise look alike.
- Colour by numbers: paste a table of names and values and the map fills itself in on a scale you choose.
- A legend you write yourself, with a heading, dragged wherever the map has room.
- Names or codes printed on the regions, on or off, in a colour you pick.
- Backgrounds, borders and border colours are all editable, or turn the borders off entirely.
- PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF export at the end, with nothing to install first.
Make your own blank Antarctica map
Claims, stations and expeditions
Which regions each country claims, where the research stations are, the route of an expedition. A map of Antarctica is usually a circle nobody can read; this one is drawn as regions you can paint separately, so the sectors and the overlaps show.
Ice, sea and season
Sea ice extent by month, where the shelf has broken up, which region a voyage reached. Paint by hand or paste a table of values per region and let the scale shade it.
Where you have been in Antarctica
The regions you have visited, lived in, worked in or only passed through. Three colours and a legend that says what each one means, and 2 shapes is small enough to finish in one sitting.
Antarctica on the world map
Pick Antarctica and any other countries on the world map and colour them on one board, opening any of them into their own regions. That is the map for anything that does not stop at a shoreline.
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Common questions
How many regions are on the Antarctica map?
2, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Antarctica to X02~. They are the first-level divisions of Antarctica as the source data draws them, credited on our credits page, so a merged or disputed area appears the way the source has it.
Does Antarctica share a land border with anyone on this map?
No. On the world map no other country's outline touches it, so a map of Antarctica with its neighbours is a map of coastlines: pick the countries across the water on the world map and colour them together.
Is Antarctica on a bigger map here too?
Yes, on the world map, where Antarctica can be picked with any other countries and coloured beside them.
Can I colour something smaller than a region?
Not on this map. It works at region level, which is the level nearly every map of Antarctica is drawn at.
Can I put the names on the map itself?
Yes. Region labels can be switched on for the whole map, in a colour and size you choose, and you can write your own text for any region where the real name is too long to fit. On a busy map most people leave the labels off and let the legend carry it.
Do I need an account?
No. The editor opens straight away, the map stays in this browser while you work, and exporting an image never asks you to sign in. An account only matters if you want to publish a map at a link other people can open.
Can I use the exported map commercially?
The image is yours, and we ask for no credit: the only mark on it is the site address in small type in the bottom corner, and nothing is drawn across the map. Nothing from the map data is added to the picture either, because we only ship boundary data whose licence is satisfied by naming it on our credits page, so there is no credit line to print and nothing for you to pass on. Anything you add to the map stays your own.