Antarctica
Antarctica is the least populated and coldest continent on Earth, with temperatures sometimes reaching below -100 degrees Fahrenheit or -73 degrees Celsius. It is featured in several kaiju films.
History
Showa era
Gorath
As part of the plans to move Earth and avoid collision with Gorath, the United Nations began construction of a field of rockets in Antarctica. One of the Atomic Burrowers caused a cave-in, setting the project back by 60 days. Despite the tragedy, the rockets were successfully built and ignited. However, as a side effect of the changing climate from the alteration in Earth's orbit, Maguma awakened, and attacked a power station for one of the rocket fields. Following the monster's attack, a VTOL jet spotted Maguma in its home in a canyon, and attempted to bury it under rock by blasting a nearby mountain. Maguma broke free, but was killed by a blast from the VTOL jet's laser.
As Gorath passed Earth, it caused massive tidal waves to strike the U.N. base in Antarctica as the rockets continued to keep the planet out of harm's way.
Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla
"The Magnetic Terror"
After a fight between Godzilla and the Magnetic Monster at an oil rig near Antarctica, the Calico Crew followed the Magnetic Monster's powerful magnetic signature as it approached the South Pole, in order to stop him from causing its ice caps from been destroyed by repulsion between its magnetism and the Magnetic Monster's energy. When the Magnetic Monster surfaced on the polar ice sheets, Godzooky called Godzilla to battle the monster. The two fought briefly before Godzilla managed to restrain the Magnetic Monster. However, the massive turtle creature began feeding on the magnetic energy from the South Pole and grew to a massive size, too big for even Godzilla to fight effectively. Godzilla and the Calico Crew then lured the Magnetic Monster directly to the South Pole, causing the monster to absorb too much magnetic energy and explode.
Godzilla: The Series
"Freeze"
Some businessmen held talks with some workers and came to an agreement to drill for oil in the region. However, the ground split and swallowed them. Later, Nick Tatopoulos deduced that the tremors experienced in Antarctica were caused by a new Mutation, and lead H.E.A.T. to investigate. When they arrived, a representative from Commoil company welcomed them. H.E.A.T. attempted to encamp on a plateau, but an unknown creature stole N.I.G.E.L. and almost abducted Randy Hernandez en route. The team discovered an Ice Borer attached to Randy's boot, and they captured it. The Commoil executive was unwilling to believe that a "hamster" was responsible for the disappearance of five workers, and choose to blame "geological causes." Soon after, H.E.A.T. discovered that their captive Borer had mysteriously disappeared. Nick and Monique Dupre departed to retrieve N.I.G.E.L., but they were ambushed by two fully grown Ice Borers, only for Godzilla to appear and intervene. The Ice-Borers, although dwarfed by Godzilla, attacked him as a team, and managed to overwhelm him. H.E.A.T. crafted liquid nitrogen guns, and began to freeze the Ice Borers, assisted by Godzilla. H.E.A.T. defeated the Borers, and the lost drillers were rescued.
Millennium era
Godzilla Final Wars
Decades ago, the Gotengo engaged Godzilla in Antarctica. Godzilla shot down the ship with his atomic breath and prepared to destroy it once and for all. A crew member, Douglas Gordon, fired a barrage of missiles that created an opening in the ice shelf, causing Godzilla to fall into it. The Gotengo then blasted a nearby mountainside, causing Godzilla to be buried deep underneath tons of ice. Area G was established in Antarctica to contain Godzilla, and there the King of the Monsters would remain dormant for many years.
In 20XX, when the Xiliens launched their full-scale invasion of Earth, the remaining members of the Earth Defense Force, led by Gordon, brought the Gotengo to Antarctica to free Godzilla in a desperate attempt to defeat the Xiliens' army of monsters. When the Controller of Planet X learned about this plan, he sent Gigan to destroy the Gotengo. Gigan attacked the ship but was unable to stop it from firing a missile and freeing Godzilla from his icy prison. Godzilla emerged and battled Gigan, who trapped him in barbed wire and began pulling him toward his buzzsaw. However, Godzilla blasted the cyborg's head off with his atomic breath. Believing his battle with the Gotengo was still going on, Godzilla followed the ship out of Antarctica and traveled around the world, defeating the Xiliens' mind-controlled monsters one by one.
Monsterverse
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
At an unspecified time during Earth's past, Godzilla and King Ghidorah battled for supremacy in Antarctica. Godzilla defeated his three-headed nemesis and sealed him beneath the ice.[1] By 2014, Monarch discovered Ghidorah sealed beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Dr. Vivienne Graham led the effort to build a covert containment and research facility around the dormant creature known as Outpost 32.[2] Dr. Emma Russell gave the creature the name "Monster Zero," and the Titan designation Titanus Ghidorah.
In 2019, after obtaining the ORCA, Alan Jonah and his men traveled to Outpost 32, where they gunned down all of the Monarch personnel. They entered the base and found Ghidorah within his frozen tomb. Jonah's men drilled into the ice and planted explosive charges within it, while Emma Russell calibrated the ORCA to Ghidorah. Monarch soon arrived and stormed the outpost, engaging in a firefight with Jonah's men. Emma grabbed the detonator for the charges and pressed it, freeing Ghidorah from the ice. After retreating to their stolen Monarch Osprey, Jonah ordered Emma to awaken Ghidorah with the ORCA. She obliged, and the demonic three-headed dragon rose from the scene. Bewildered, Monarch's G-Team opened fire on Ghidorah's heads as they eyed them curiously before retaliating with devastating gravity beams that vaporized the squad. Ghidorah completely freed himself from the ice and made his way to Monarch's Ospreys, though her daughter Madison used the ORCA to distract him before he attacked them. Godzilla burst out from the ice and challenges Ghidorah, with the two Titans charging at each other. One Osprey is damaged in the battle and unable to take off. The Monarch scientists run to reach G-Team's Osprey amidst Godzilla and Ghidorah's clash. Ghidorah was proving to be more than a match for Godzilla physically, forcing Godzilla to use his atomic breath. Ghidorah's heads weaved out of the way of the blast and countered with their gravity beams, which knocked Godzilla off of the ice shelf. Ghidorah resumed terrorizing the humans, devouring Dr. Graham as she and Mark Russell tried to flee to safety. Before he could kill the others, the USS Argo flew overhead and bombarded Ghidorah with missiles. As Godzilla reemerged from the pit to rejoin the battle, Ghidorah took flight and escaped.
Godzilla vs. Kong
After Godzilla attacked the naval fleet transporting Kong to Antarctica and bested him in combat, scores of helicopters and Ospreys carried Kong the rest of the way in a net and set him down near an entrance to the Hollow Earth, located near the ruins of Outpost 32. Kong investigated the unfamiliar snow around him, then turned to see Jia standing on a nearby platform. She signed to Kong that his home was through the entrance, but Kong refused to go through. Nathan Lind asked Ilene Andrews if Kong would go if he thought there were others like him through there. Andrews told Jia to tell Kong his family might be through there, and she obliged. Kong immediately charged through the entry point, and the expedition members pursued him in three HEAVs. Kong swung along the ceiling of the tunnel before falling through a crater, with the HEAVs hot on his tail. After passing through a Vile Vortex, they found themselves within the Hollow Earth.
Comics
- Godzilla: The Half-Century War #5 (2013)
Godzilla: The Half-Century War #5
In 2001, the Anti-Megalosaurus Force prepared Mechagodzilla and the Dimension Tide in a last bid to stop King Ghidorah and Gigan, carrying out the operation in Antarctica. Godzilla surfaced in Antarctica as well, and briefly battled the two alien kaiju. Godzilla was overwhelmed, but Mechagodzilla, piloted by Ota Murakami, came to his aid, and the two fought King Ghidorah and Gigan to a standstill. The Dimension Tide fired, and the black hole sucked King Ghidorah and Gigan in. Godzilla resisted its pull, but Mechagodzilla pushed itself and Godzilla in. Afterwards, however, Godzilla's dorsal plates surfaced from the waters nearby.
References
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