[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

About 50 to 300 million years ago, Antarctica was a tropical type climate. It had dinosaurs from about 200 million years ago to about 60 million years.

Yet I suppose that under the pressure of all that ice, fossils must be few and far between, most having been ground down for gravel and dust.

[muawiyah]

Not necessarily so ~ the Ghost Mountains appear to have been iced in 500,000,000 years ago ~ and are as sharp and clear of weathering as they were when they first popped up.

There will no doubt be further work done on that range but Antarctica seems to be positioned at the Souf' Pole ~ PERIOD! The nicer spots show up when other continents link to it's larger masses, but that's always in the lower latitudes.

Adding confusion to the matter there's the recent discovery (or more likely 'demonstration') that Antarctic ice sheets melt from the bottom, not the top!

[muawiyah]

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/atmos/layers.htm ~ plus, the atmosphere is simply less thick over the Antarctic ~ which means it gets colder than elsewhere more often so there’s always going to be some ice in/on/alongside the mountainous areas there