A map depicting a flat Earth surrounded by rings of ice walls from an online art forum is being taken by some social media users as evidence the planet is flat.

A video of a map depicting Earth’s continents surrounded by an Antarctic “ice wall” is a creative interpretation from an online art forum. Some posts on social media have shared it with ...

The claim: Antarctica is a wall hiding 20 more continents A Feb. 10 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows renderings of Earth, maps and mountains of ice and snow.

But the concept of an ice wall around the earth is both fiction and scientifically impossible, experts say. Antarctica is a continent in the Southern hemisphere.