PrinceChartreuse

Here's a blank map of what Antarctica would look like if all the ice melted. Based on the BEDMAP2 Antarctic bedrock mapping by the British Antarctic Survey.

Global warming had progressed quicker than expected. As the ice on Antarctica melted, the continent was settled by people from all over the world who had been displaced by drought or flooding. As things got worse in the rest of the world, these colonies lost contact with their home nations, becoming their own independent countries.

[Some of the place names on my map are the names of actual Antarctic geographical features, while others are my own invention.]

Smeagol, shortly after discovering the ring of power.

A hideous ogre and an unfortunate hen.