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The Antarctic is on the extreme southern tip of the globe, and in the Southern Hemisphere the seasons are the opposite of those in the Northern hemisphere, i.e. summer in the North is June 21 - September 23 this year. Conversely, during this time Antarctica will be almost entirely in the dark.

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