Summary
Some versions of the ice-wall story do not stop at the rim. For them the ice is only a fence, and other lands lie behind it. A few flat-Earthers met during the filming of the documentary Behind the Curve describe the Earth as an infinite plane, perhaps with more continents beyond the circular wall. Viral posts on Facebook and TikTok go further: an ancient race of reptilians is said to hide these continents, and giants, powerful civilisations and aliens are placed there too. The reptilian motif is borrowed from David Icke, who describes draconian beings from the Alpha Draconis star system hiding in underground bases; ice-wall stories simply move them to the outer lands.
The most detailed picture is the "Terra Infinita" map. It shows 178 worlds beyond the domed "Known Lands", with portals said to be guarded by "the Custodians and Anunnaki" and lands full of extinct creatures. It is shared as if it showed real places, but it comes from a science-fiction series by Claudio Nocelli. None of these claims rests on evidence. Fact-checkers have rated them false: Antarctica is not an ice wall around the Earth, it hides no other continents, and the Terra Infinita map is a work of fiction. What this sheet documents is the way the story keeps growing, not a place that anyone has reached.
What the thesis says
The sources show where these claims circulate, not that they are true.
- Thesis
Some believers met while filming the documentary Behind the Curve hold that the Earth is an infinite plane, possibly with more continents beyond the circular ice wall.
- Modern flat Earth beliefs, Wikipedia
potentially with more continents beyond the purported circular ice wall of Antarctica.
- Modern flat Earth beliefs, Wikipedia
- Thesis
Viral Facebook and TikTok posts claim that continents exist beyond the wall and that an ancient race of reptilians hides them; giants, powerful civilisations and aliens are also placed there.
- False: Antarctica is an ice wall and there are continents beyond it, Logically Facts (Arron Williams), 9 December 2022
A viral post shared on Facebook and TikTok claims that Antarctica is an ice wall and that there are continents beyond it. They also claim that an ancient race of reptilians is hiding them from us.
- False: Antarctica is an ice wall and there are continents beyond it, Logically Facts (Arron Williams), 9 December 2022
- Thesis
The "Terra Infinita" map shows 178 worlds beyond the domed "Known Lands", with portals said to be guarded by "the Custodians and Anunnaki" and lands full of extinct creatures; it comes from a science-fiction series by Claudio Nocelli.
- Fact Check: 'Terra-Infinita' Map Does NOT Show Real Place -- It's Illustration Of Lands In Science Fiction Series, Lead Stories (Sarah Thompson), 2 December 2022
a real place composed of 178 worlds that exist beyond the domed territory of the "Known Lands" of Earth
- 'A Tear In Time Itself': Is Antarctica Hiding Secret Realms Full Of Creatures We Long Thought Extinct?, BroBible (Braden Bjella), 11 May 2026
They called it Terra Infinita: the infinite land, a realm untouched by time, where creatures long extinct roam free,
- Fact Check: 'Terra-Infinita' Map Does NOT Show Real Place -- It's Illustration Of Lands In Science Fiction Series, Lead Stories (Sarah Thompson), 2 December 2022
- Thesis
Reptilians, also called draconians, are said by David Icke to come from the Alpha Draconis star system and to hide in underground bases; ice-wall stories place them in the outer lands.
- Reptilian conspiracy theory, Wikipedia
Reptilians (also called archons, reptoids, reptiloids, saurians, draconians, or lizard people)
- False: Antarctica is an ice wall and there are continents beyond it, Logically Facts (Arron Williams), 9 December 2022
This includes claims suggesting that giants, powerful civilizations, such as the reptilians, and aliens all exist on these other continents.
- Reptilian conspiracy theory, Wikipedia
Verified facts
- Verified fact
Fact-checkers rated these stories false: Antarctica is not an ice wall around the Earth and hides no continents, and the Terra Infinita map is a work of fiction.
- Fact Check: 'Terra-Infinita' Map Does NOT Show Real Place -- It's Illustration Of Lands In Science Fiction Series, Lead Stories (Sarah Thompson), 2 December 2022
an illustration from a science fiction series written and published by Claudio Nocelli
- False: Antarctica is an ice wall and there are continents beyond it, Logically Facts (Arron Williams), 9 December 2022
Antarctica is not an ice wall that surrounds the Earth and there are no hidden continents.
- Fact Check: 'Terra-Infinita' Map Does NOT Show Real Place -- It's Illustration Of Lands In Science Fiction Series, Lead Stories (Sarah Thompson), 2 December 2022
