Antarctica Antarctica was a continent on Earth . The South Pole was located there . The Roman s called it Ultima Thule . ( PROSE : " Warlords of Utopia " ) History of Antarctica . Distant past . 12 million years BC , Time Lord s from the War ' s future set up a base in Antarctica and attempted to free the Fendahl for use against the enemy . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) While battling Ice Warrior s in Antarctica , the Seventh Doctor and his foes became frozen solid in Antarctic ice , where they remained coma tose for millions of years . ( AUDIO : " Frozen Time " ) The Silurian s had at least one city there . ( PROSE : " The Scales of Injustice " ) Circa 20 , 000 BC , two Krynoid pods fell to Earth there and lay frozen and dormant . ( TV : " The Seeds of Doom " ) Modern era . In the 17th century , a group of Dalek s set up an underground base in Antarctica , where they began capturing human ships and their crew and using hypnosis to turn them into slaves . ( COMIC : " * Sub Zero " ) 20th century . In 1903 , the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition arrived at Laurie Island , off the coast of Antarctica . The expedition was visited by the Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot . ( PROSE : " Mirth , or Walking Spirits " ) In 1910 , Captain Robert Scott travelled from Cardiff to Antarctica . It took him until 1912 to get there and he died shortly afterwards . ( TV : " To the Last Man " ) News reached England that he was dead in February 1913 . ( AUDIO : " The Fog " ) After two failed attempts to reach the South Pole , Ernest Shackleton began the Imperial Trans - Antarctic Expedition to be the first to cross Antarctica . In 1915 , his ship the " Endurance " was trapped in the ice , and his expedition failed . At the same time , the Skith ship " Oppressor One " was on an expedition to Earth , where the Skith scientists cultivated and experimented on specimens in Antarctica . Upon realising that other alien expeditions had already beaten them to Earth , the Skith declared their expedition a failure , and decided to freeze Earth . The Tenth Doctor , assisted by Shackleton , stopped the Skith by sending the " Oppressor One " into the sun . Shackleton and his crew abandoned the " Endurance " and left Antarctica for Paulet Island . ( COMIC : " The First " ) In Roma I , the Roman Empire included subterranean cities in the ice of Ultima Thule . ( PROSE : " Warlords of Utopia " ) Some time prior to April 1929 , Lord Barset went on an ill - fated Antarctic expedition and discovered a city of intelligent reptiles . " The Daily Telegraph " reported on 12 April that the expedition was lost . ( COMIC : " City of Devils " , AUDIO : " Frozen Time " ) In 1970 , the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon encountered the Ice Ape s in Antarctica . ( COMIC : " Ice Cap Terror " ) In the 1970s , the Daleks captured a nuclear submarine , the USS " Jefferson " , and left their base to attack Sydney , destroying Antarctic Weather Research Station 12 before doing so . ( COMIC : " * Sub Zero " ) Two Krynoid pods were discovered in the Antarctic permafrost . One of the pods germinated in a living human host , Charles Winlett , shortly before the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrived at the base there . The base was destroyed when Scorby set a bomb on the power lines . After the Krynoid threat was destroyed , the Doctor and Sarah accidentally materialised on the continent due to a fault in the Doctor ' s TARDIS . ( TV : " The Seeds of Doom " ) In 1983 , the HADS on the Doctor ' s TARDIS activated when a Soviet submarine at the North Pole during an attack by Skaldak . The TARDIS dematerialised , and reappeared at the South Pole . ( TV : " Cold War " ) In December 1986 , a landing party of Cybermen arrived in a flying saucer and attacked the Snowcap space tracking station shortly after the First Doctor and his companions arrived there in the TARDIS . The Doctor defeat the Cybermen but the stress of doing so resulted in his regeneration into his second incarnation . ( TV : " The Tenth Planet " ) 21st century . In 2006 , the FLIPback project was based in Antarctica . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) In December 2008 , the First Doctor and Steven Taylor visited Antarctica . ( PROSE : " White on White " ) In 2009 , members of the Blathereen family parked their spaceship there . ( TV : " The Gift " ) In 2010 Santiago Jones ' father went hiking across Antarctica with the " Gay Dads Organisation " . ( TV : " Death of the Doctor " ) A 2012 expedition by Lord Barset ' s grandson found the Doctor ' s TARDIS , as well as a coma tose Seventh Doctor suspended within a block of ice . They revived the Doctor from his coma . ( AUDIO : " Frozen Time " ) In 2045 , the Seventh Doctor , Ace and Hex visited Antarctica and met Nobody No - One . ( AUDIO : " The Word Lord " ) Post - 21st century . In 2595 , Bernice Summerfield visited Antarctica . ( PROSE : " The Sword of Forever " ) After the United Planets government had come into power , the Anti - Dalek Force , let by Joel Shaw , Mark Seven and Reb Shavron , discovered that the Dalek s were using a neutronic power unit to melt the Antarctic ice cap and flood the rest of the world . ( COMIC : " Flood ! ! ! " ) By 7214 , the continent was fully urbanised , aside from a small part of the territory as a nature preserve . In that year , it hosted an invasion of Auton s led by , foiled by the Sixth Doctor . ( COMIC : " Façades " ) References . In the distant future , Clara Oswald and the Twelfth Doctor landed on a spaceship in what Clara thought to be Antarctica , but was in reality the " Pollyanna " , the first of the Ninth Era sunship s , which was circumnavigating the Sun . ( COMIC : " The Eye of Torment " )