This may be of interest to Lovecraft artists who use 3D. A new all-terrain height-map of Antarctica has just been released, with a mapping resolution that’s high enough to spot one of Lovecraft’s Star-Headed Old Ones and possibly even to count the number of points on his star (2m resolution in rocky parts). There’s a Google-Maps-like Web Viewer of this summer 2015-16 snapshot of the mighty continent’s terrain.

Presumably the data sets will soon be loaded to the main 3D terrain download service TerrainParty, which is free and public, from where you’ll be able to get it with relative ease to creative 3D landscape software such as Vue, Terragen, World Creator Pro etc. And you can then create any true-life vista of Antarctica you want, without risk of frost-bite or shoggoth attack.