Last year on July 27, academics announced that Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest in 7.5 billion years, and that “vast regions of the Antarctic coastline were ice free for the first time in the observational record.”
“we’d expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 billion years.
vast regions of the Antarctic coastline were ice free for the first time in the observational record.”

Antarctic sea ice levels dive in ‘five-sigma event’, as experts flag worsening consequences for planet – ABC News
There was a small region along the Antarctic Peninsula with no ice.

Now there are unusually large amounts of ice around the Antarctic Peninsula, and ice has grown a record rate over the past week.

