For most people, a trip to Antarctica would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, a chance to see one of the most breathtaking landscapes on the planet.

But early next year, there could be a journey to the bottom of the Earth with a very different purpose. Its mission could not be more startling: to prove the Earth is flat.

Forget those millennia of geographical research and those millions of photos from space of our globe-shaped planet.

There really are people who think the world is shaped more like a disc than a ball — encircled by a massive perimeter of ice that’s 150ft thick, and 165ft high.


‘Beyond the Ice Wall is anyone’s guess,’ says the website of the Flat Earth Society. ‘How far the ice extends; how it terminates; and what exists beyond it, are questions to which no present human experience can reply.’

With their trip down South, the flat-earthers hope to answer this.
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