A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice removed.

The most detailed map to date of the landscape ... been filled by recent surveys in East Antarctica including around the South Pole, along the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic coastlines ...

Antarctica is in the grip of some of the world's fastest climate change. Its melting ice could contribute up to 5 meters of sea-level rise . Where the ice disappears, it leaves barren ground behind.